Single-stage muscle flap reconstruction of the postpneumonectomy empyema space: The Emory experience

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1886-1891

  Seify, Hisham ^a   Mansour, Kamal ^a   Miller, Joseph ^a   Douglas, Trent ^a   Burke, Renee ^a   Losken, Albert ^a   Culbertson, John ^a   Jones, Glyn ^a   Nahai, Foad ^a   Hester, T Roderick ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TRANSPOSITION FLAP; THORAX DRAINAGE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBS; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349027289     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000256051.99115.fb     Document Type: Article

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