Salvage of replanted upper extremities with major soft-tissue complications

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 769-775

  Cavadas, Pedro C ^a  

^a Ctro de Rehabilitacion de Levante   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complication; Free flap; Infection; Necrosis; Replantation; Salvage

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARM AMPUTATION; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMPLANTATION; SEPSIS; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST INJURY;

ADULT; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ARM; ARM INJURIES; FEMALE; FOREARM INJURIES; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; REPLANTATION; SEPSIS; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 34249778940     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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