The perforator-sparing buttock rotation flap for coverage of pressure sores

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1259-1266

  Wong, Chin Ho ^a   Tan, Bien Keem ^a   Song, Colin ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BUTTOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; DISSECTION; FASCIA; FOLLOW UP; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INFERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; ISCHIUM; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; ROTATION; SACRUM; SKIN FLAP; SKIN INCISION; SUPERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; BUTTOCKS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROTATION; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34247643225     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000254540.50381.63     Document Type: Article

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