The bipedicled and bipartite latissimus dorsi free and perforator flap: An anatomic study

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1162-1170

  Beer, Gertrude M ^a   Lang, Axel ^b   Manestar, Mirjana ^b   Kompatscher, Peter ^b  

^a Burn Center BG Trauma Center   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRYOTHERAPY; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REOPERATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN ULCER; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 33749426786     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000237023.99707.22     Document Type: Article

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