Donor-site morbidity of the radial forearm free flap after 125 phalloplasties in gender identity disorder

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1171-1177

  Selvaggi, Gennaro ^a   Monstrey, Stan ^a   Hoebeke, Piet ^a   Ceulemans, Peter ^a   Van Landuyt, Koen ^a   Hamdi, Moustapha ^a   Cameron, Bowman ^a   Blondeel, Phillip ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; DISSECTION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PENIS; PENIS RECONSTRUCTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ADULT; CICATRIX; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOREARM; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICALLY-CREATED STRUCTURES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 33749432317     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000221110.43002.a0     Document Type: Article

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