A 20-year experience with the Brent technique of auricular reconstruction: Pearls and pitfalls

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1447-1463

  Osorno, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRENT TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EAR MALFORMATION; EAR RECONSTRUCTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; KELOID; MALE; MICROTIA; MUSCLE FLAP; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB CARTILAGE; SCAR; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARTILAGE; CHILD; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34147112761     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000258572.57161.d8     Document Type: Article

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