Outcome assessment after reconstruction of complex defects of the forearm and hand with osteocutaneous free flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 443-454

  Kremer, Thomas ^a   Bickert, Berthold ^a   Germann, Günter ^a   Heitmann, Christoph ^a   Sauerbier, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; ONCOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANGE OF MOTION; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FOREARM; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MICROSURGERY; PAIN; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33746666649     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000227742.66799.74     Document Type: Article

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