Perforator-plus flaps: A new concept in traditional flap design

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 590-598

  Mehrotra, Sandeep ^a  

^a Classified Specialist   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN CONTRACTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ELBOW; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT PERFUSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; ISLAND FLAP; JOINT MOBILITY; LIMB INJURY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BURNS; CHILD; CONTRACTURE; ELBOW; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33846442394     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000239570.18647.83     Document Type: Article

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