Lateral circumflex femoral artery system: Warehouse for functional composite free-tissue reconstruction of the lower leg

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1032-1036

  Lin, Chih Hung ^a,b   Wei, Fu Chan ^a   Lin, Yu Te ^a   Yeh, Jiun Ting ^a   Rodriguez, Eduardo De Jesus ^a   Chen, Chien Tzung ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Composite reconstruction; Functional reconstruction; Lateral circumflex femoral artery

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ARTERIAL TRUNK; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; CALCANEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE GRAFT; EXTENSOR HALLUCIS TENDON; FEMORAL ARTERY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; LATERAL CIRCUMFLEX FEMORAL ARTERY SYSTEM; LEG; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG ANTERIOR COMPARTMENT; LEG ANTERIOR COMPARTMENT MUSCLE; LEG LATERAL COMPARTMENT MUSCLE; LEG MUSCLE; LIMB SALVAGE; PATELLA TENDON; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REOPERATION; TENDON; TENDON LESION; TENSOR FASCIA LATA MUSCLE; THIGH; TIBIA; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; WOUND INFECTION;

FEMORAL ARTERY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; LEG INJURIES; LIMB SALVAGE; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33646880198     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000218248.22811.70     Document Type: Article

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