Instep free flap for plantar soft tissue reconstruction: Indications and options

Microsurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 174-180

  Scheufler, Oliver ^a   Kalbermatten, Daniel ^a   Pierer, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ESTHETICS; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FOOT MALFORMATION; FOOT SOLE; FOREFOOT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEEL; HUMAN; MUSCLE FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT BEARING;

FEMALE; FOOT INJURIES; GAIT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 34247232177     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20327     Document Type: Article

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