Free tissue transfer: Comparison of outcomes between university hospitals and community hospitals

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 671-675

  Gusenoff, Jeffrey A ^b   Vega, Stephen J ^b   Jiang, Shao ^b   Behnam, Amir B ^b   Sbitany, Hani ^b   Herrera, H Raul ^b   Smith, Andrew ^b   Serletti, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FAT NECROSIS; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND HEMORRHAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARM; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HEAD; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33748277131     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000233203.84078.6b     Document Type: Article

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