Cross-leg tibial posterior perforator flap

Microsurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 379-383

  Georgescu, Alexandru V ^a,b   Irina, Capota ^a   Ileana, Matei ^a  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b Spitalul Clinic de Recuperare   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS LEG TIBIAL POSTERIOR PERFORATOR FLAP; CRUSH TRAUMA; FOOT MALFORMATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LEG INJURY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; OPEN FRACTURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; PLASTER CAST; POSTERIOR TIBIAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SYMPTOM; TIBIAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ARTHRODESIS; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 34547895503     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20375     Document Type: Article

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