An innovative treatment concept for free flap reconstruction of complex central chest wall defects - The cephalic-thoraco-acromial (CTA) loop

Microsurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 481-486

  Engel, Holger ^a   Pelzer, Michael ^a   Sauerbier, Michael ^a   Germann, Günther ^a   Heitmann, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMION; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BONE NECROSIS; CEPHALIC VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OPERATION DURATION; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; STERNUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX WALL DEFECT; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTICAL RECTUS MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STERNUM; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 34547879297     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20391     Document Type: Article

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