Current concepts of microvascular reconstruction for limb salvage in electrical burn injuries

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 724-730

  Ofer, Nina ^a   Baumeister, Steffen ^a   Megerle, Kai ^a   Germann, Günter ^a   Sauerbier, Michael ^a  

^a BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical burn injury; Free flap transplantation; High voltage injury; Limb salvage; Microvascular reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARM INJURY; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHIMERIC FLAP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC BURN; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG INJURY; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MUSCLE FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SKIN FLAP; TREATMENT DURATION; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARM; ARM INJURIES; BURNS, ELECTRIC; FOREARM; HUMANS; LEG; LEG INJURIES; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249915580     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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