Beauty of skin-grafted free muscle flaps in head and neck reconstruction

Microsurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 177-181

  Lutz, Barbara S ^a,b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MUSCLE FLAP; NECROSIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33645781960     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20222     Document Type: Article

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