Operation Iraqi freedom: A report on a series of soldiers treated with free tissue transfer by a plastic surgery service

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 200-206

  Chattar Cora, Deowall ^a,b   Perez Nieves, Roberto ^b,c   McKinlay, Alexander ^c   Kunasz, Markian ^a,c   Delaney, Richard ^c   Lyons, Robert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Ponce Plastic Surgery   (Puerto Rico)

^c BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

American; Flap; Free; Freedom; Iraqi; Military; Operation

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MORBIDITY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE; SOLDIER; WOUND;

ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; FRACTURES, OPEN; FREEDOM; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 33846427714     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000237740.08862.85     Document Type: Article

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