Using the descending branch of the lateral femoral circumflex vessel as a source of two independent flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2059-2063

  Chou, Erh Kang ^a   Ulusal, Betul ^a   Ulusal, Ali ^a   Wei, Fu Chan ^a,b   Lin, Chih Hung ^a   Tsao, Chung Kan ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOUTH CAVITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLAP; THIGH; BETEL NUT; CASE REPORT; CONTRACTURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FIBROSIS; FOOT INJURY; MASTICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MOUTH DISEASE; PLASTIC SURGERY; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TRANSPLANTATION; TRISMUS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ARECA; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FIBROSIS; FOOT INJURIES; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MASTICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MOUTH DISEASES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TRISMUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33646846245     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000210541.86837.66     Document Type: Article

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