The distal lateral arm flap for resurfacing of extensive defects of the digits

Microsurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-16

  Atzei, Andrea ^a,c   Pignatti, Marco ^a   Udali, Giorgio ^a   Cugola, Landino ^a   Maranzano, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Regional Hospital C Foncello   (Italy)

^c Policlinico G B Rossi   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRUSH TRAUMA; DEBRIDEMENT; FINGER INJURY; FLEXOR TENDON INJURY; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; HAND FUNCTION; HAND INJURY; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; LATERAL ARM FLAP; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THUMB INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THUMB;

EID: 33846915980     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20308     Document Type: Article

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