Controversies following the report on transplantation of cephalocervical skin flap [8]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 268-270

  Siemionow, Maria ^a   Agaoglu, Galip ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACLIZUMAB; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPOSITE GRAFT; COMPOSITE SKIN GRAFT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MELANOMA; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ALLOGRAFT; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN FLAP; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; EAR TUMOR; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATIENT SELECTION; SCALP; SKIN TUMOR; TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; EAR NEOPLASMS; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT SELECTION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33746836615     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000222222.18263.0f     Document Type: Letter

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