The role of muscle flaps in wound salvage after vascular graft infections: The Emory experience

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1325-1333

  Seify, Hisham ^a   Moyer, Hunter R ^a   Jones, Glyn E ^a   Busquets, Antonio ^a   Brown, Katherine ^a   Salam, Atef ^a   Losken, Albert ^a   Culbertson, John ^a   Hester, T Roderick ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INGUINAL FLAP; LIMB; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; MUSCLE FLAP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS; WOUND HEALING; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMORBIDITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33646112912     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000204961.32022.ab     Document Type: Article

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