Urethral Reconstruction Using the Radial Forearm Free Flap: Experience in Oncologic Cases and Gender Reassignment

European Urology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 547-554

  Dabernig, Jörg ^a,b   Shelley, Odhran P ^b   Cuccia, Guiseppe ^b   Schaff, Jürgen ^a  

^a Plastic Surgery Center Munich   (Germany)

^b CANNIESBURN PLASTIC SURGERY UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free flap; Penile tumour; Radial forearm flap; Transsexualism; Urethral reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PENIS AMPUTATION; PENIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROPLASTY; UROFLOWMETRY;

ADULT; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE NEOPLASMS; PENIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSSEXUALISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34250721161     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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