The revised "reconstructive ladder" and its applications for high-energy injuries to the extremities

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 401-405

  Ullmann, Yehuda ^a   Fodor, Lucian ^a   Ramon, Ytzhack ^a   Soudry, Michael ^a,b   Lerner, Alexander ^a,b  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute shortening; High energy injuries; Reconstructive ladder; VAC

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; LIMB INJURY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE LADDER; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; TERRORISM; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WEAPON; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; MALE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 33645416566     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000201552.81612.68     Document Type: Article

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