Free vascularized tissue transfer to preserve upper extremity amputation levels

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 971-981

  Baccarani, Alessio ^b   Follmar, Keith E ^b   De Santis, Giorgio ^b   Adani, Roberto ^b   Pinelli, Massimo ^b   Innocenti, Marco ^b   Baumeister, Steffen ^b   Von Gregory, Henning ^b   Germann, Günter ^b   Erdmann, Detlev ^a   Levin, L Scott ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARM; ARM AMPUTATION; ARM INJURY; ARM PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELBOW; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LEG LENGTHENING; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; METASTASIS; MICROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SHOULDER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; AMPUTATION STUMPS; ARM INJURIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548380404     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000256479.54755.f6     Document Type: Article

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