Free tensor fascia lata perforator flap as a backup procedure for head and neck reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-163

  Coskunfirat, O Koray ^a   Özkan, Ömer ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Head and neck reconstruction; Tensor fascia lata perforator flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKIN GRAFT; TENSOR FASCIA LATA MUSCLE; THICKNESS; THIGH; TREATMENT PLANNING; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FASCIA LATA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK INJURIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33746471277     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000215869.96137.df     Document Type: Article

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