Refinements in the elevation of reconstructed auricles in microtia

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2414-2423

  Tai, Yoshiaki ^a   Tanaka, Shinsuke ^a   Fukushima, Junichi ^a   Kizuka, Yuichiro ^a   Kiyokawa, Kensuke ^a   Inoue, Yojiro ^a   Yamauchi, Toshihiko ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CERAMIC; HYDROXYAPATITE;

ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRAIN; EAR LOBE; EXPOSURE; EXTERNAL EAR; EXTERNAL EAR MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MICROTIA; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN FLAP; SKIN NECROSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VACUUM ASPIRATION; CHILD; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EAR DISEASE; EAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; EAR DISEASES; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745365949     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000225449.04098.94     Document Type: Article

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