Application of the pedicled anterolateral thigh flap to defects from the pelvis to the knee

Microsurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 432-438

  Gravvanis, Andreas I ^a,b   Tsoutsos, Dimosthenis A ^a   Karakitsos, Dimitrios ^a   Panayotou, Petros ^a   Iconomou, Thomais ^a   Zografos, George ^a   Karabinis, Andreas ^a   Papadopoulos, Othon ^a  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THIGH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WOUND HEALING;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33749235140     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20267     Document Type: Article

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