Reconstruction of extensive partial or total sacrectomy defects with a transabdominal vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 526-530

  Glatt, Brian S ^a   Disa, Joseph J ^a   Mehrara, Babak J ^a   Pusic, Andrea L ^a   Boland, Patrick ^b   Cordeiro, Peter G ^a,b  

^a Department of Surgery   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Sacrectomy reconstruction; VRAM flap

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; AGED; BONE TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OSTEOSARCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REVIEW; SACRECTOMY; SACRUM; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSABDOMINAL VERTICAL RECTUS ABDOMINIS MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHORDOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33745648079     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000205772.15061.39     Document Type: Review

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