Split flexor carpi ulnaris transfer: A new functioning free muscle transfer with independent dual function

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1927-1932

  Lim, Aymeric Y T ^a   Kumar, V Prem ^b   Sebastin, Sandeep J ^b   Kapickis, Martins ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FINGER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; THUMB; ARM INJURY; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONVALESCENCE; FINGER INJURY; HAND INJURY; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OPEN FRACTURE; RADIUS FRACTURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; ULNA; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; FINGER INJURIES; FOREARM; FOREARM INJURIES; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; FRACTURES, OPEN; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADIAL NERVE; RADIUS FRACTURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; ULNA; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33646852384     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000209996.52222.2e     Document Type: Article

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