The posterior thigh perforator flap or profunda femoris artery perforator flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 194-200

  Ahmadzadeh, Reza ^a   Bergeron, Leonard ^a   Tang, Maolin ^a   Geddes, Christopher R ^a   Morris, Steven F ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Division of Plastic Surgery   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATIN; LEAD OXIDE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; DEEP FEMORAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; DISSECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR PERFORATOR THIGH FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TISSUE FLAP; ARTERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; THIGH; VASCULARIZATION;

ARTERIES; CADAVER; HUMANS; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH;

EID: 33847066407     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000244848.10434.5f     Document Type: Article

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