Off-Loading Large Posterior Heel Defects After Sural Artery Soft-Tissue Flap Coverage With a Stacked Taylor Spatial Frame Foot Plate System

Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-37

  Zgonis, Thomas ^a   Roukis, Thomas S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

external fixation; heel ulceration; off loading techniques; sural artery flap; Taylor Spatial Frame

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FOOT ULCER; HEEL; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT STABILITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SOFT TISSUE FLAP; SURAL ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; WEIGHT BEARING; WOUND DRESSING;

EID: 33646195740     PISSN: 10486666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.oto.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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