Superficial ulnar artery: Curse or blessing in harvesting fasciocutaneous forearm flaps

Head and Neck

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 447-452

  Sieg, Peter ^a   Jacobsen, Hans Christian ^a   Hakim, Samer G ^a   Hermes, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forearm flap; Microsurgery; Reconstructive surgery; Superficial ulnar artery; Vascular anomaly

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERIOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY; ULNA; ULNAR ARTERY;

FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULNAR ARTERY;

EID: 33646351524     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20367     Document Type: Review

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