Outcome comparison between free muscle and free fasciocutaneous flaps for reconstruction of distal third and ankle traumatic open tibial fractures

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2468-2475

  Yazar, Sukru ^a   Lin, Chih Hung ^a,b   Lin, Yu Te ^a   Ulusal, Ali Engin ^a   Wei, Fu Chan ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; CHILD; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MUSCLE FLAP; OPEN FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA FRACTURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FRACTURE HEALING; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LEG INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRESS FRACTURE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; FRACTURES, STRESS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OSTEOMYELITIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33745352879     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000224304.56885.c2     Document Type: Article

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