Upper extremity salvage with a flow-through free flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 630-635

  Kesiktas, Erol ^a   Yavuz, Metin ^a   Dalay, Cemil ^a   Kesiktas, Nüket ^a   Özerdem, Gökhan ^a   Acartürk, Sabri ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Extremity salvage; Flow

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM BLOOD FLOW; ARM INJURY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE GRAFT; DISSECTION; ELBOW; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LIMB DEFECT; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKIN COLOR; SURGICAL ANATOMY; ULNAR ARTERY; WOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM INJURIES; FEMALE; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 34249279198     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000248142.29126.b9     Document Type: Article

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