Immediate partial great toe transfer for the reconstruction of composite defects of the distal thumb

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1906-1915

  Woo, Sang Hyun ^a   Lee, Gi Jun ^a   Kim, Kyung Chul ^a   Ha, Sung Han ^a   Kim, Joo Sung ^a  

^a Hyundae General Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTHRODESIS; CRUSH TRAUMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HALLUX; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAIL; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; SATISFACTION; STRENGTH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THUMB; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CONTRACTURE; CONVALESCENCE; EMERGENCY; ESTHETICS; EVALUATION; HAND GRIP; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TOE; TRANSPLANTATION; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ARTHRODESIS; CONTRACTURE; EMERGENCIES; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REOPERATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THUMB; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646823259     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000210011.71759.65     Document Type: Review

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