First successful lower-extremity transplantation: Technique and functional result

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 239-244

  Zuker, Ronald M ^a   Redett, Rick ^a   Alman, Ben ^a   Coles, John G ^a   Timoney, Norma ^a   Ein, Sigmund H ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conjoined twins; Lower extremity; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONJOINED TWINS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENETIC COMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEG; LEG PROSTHESIS; LEG TRANSPLANTATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEG BONES; LOWER EXTREMITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OSTEOTOMY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWINS, CONJOINED;

EID: 33646238688     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-939928     Document Type: Article

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