A new method of costal cartilage harvest for total auricular reconstruction: Part I. Avoidance and prevention of intraoperative and postoperative complications and problems

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2011-2018

  Kawanabe, Yasuyo ^a,b   Nagata, Satoru ^a  

^a Akiba Hospital   (Japan)

^b Nagata Microtia and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; EAR RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERICHONDRIUM; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB CARTILAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DEFORMITY; TISSUE REGENERATION; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CARTILAGE; CHILD; EXTERNAL EAR; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REGENERATION; RIB; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; CARTILAGE; CHILD; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REGENERATION; RIBS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 33646844915     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000210015.28620.1c     Document Type: Article

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