A new technique of vaginal reconstruction with the deep inferior epigastric perforator flap: A preliminary report

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1785-1790

  Wang, Xiancheng ^a   Qiao, Qun ^b   Burd, Andrew ^b   Liu, Zhifei ^b   Zhao, Ru ^b   Song, Kexin ^b   Feng, Rui ^b   Zeng, Ang ^b   Zhao, Yuming ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; VAGINA APLASIA; VAGINA TUMOR;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; VAGINA; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247325668     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000259076.16918.fa     Document Type: Article

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