Salvaging limbs in cases of severe purpura fulminans: Advantages of free flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 681-685

  Duteille, Franck ^a   Thibault, Freddy ^b   Perrot, Pierre ^b   Renard, Benoit ^b   Pannier, Michel ^b  

^a NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; FOOT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FULMINATING PURPURA; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LEG; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MUSCLE FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SERRATUS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DEBRIDEMENT; FOOT DEFORMITIES, ACQUIRED; FOOT DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; NECROSIS; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748258206     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000233039.99945.01     Document Type: Article

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