Does fascia lata repair facilitate closure and does it affect compartment pressures of the anterolateral thigh flap donor site?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1300-1304

  Rodriguez, Eduardo D ^a,b   Bluebond Langner, Rachel ^a   Park, Julie ^a   You, Xiaojun ^a   Rosson, Gedge ^a   Singh, Navin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b R ADAMS COWLEY SHOCK TRAUMA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; FASCIA LATA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL WOUND; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; FASCIA LATA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEOPLASMS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34848840695     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000279347.40506.c6     Document Type: Article

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