Full-thickness skin graft as a one-stage debulking procedure after free flap reconstruction for the lower leg

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 408-412

  Lin, Tsan Shiun ^a,b   Jeng, Seng Feng ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOT; FREE SKIN GRAFT; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LOWER LEG; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THIGH; TIBIA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TWO TAILED TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33746769480     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000227624.99710.ee     Document Type: Article

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