The role of free-tissue transfer for head and neck burn reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1871-1878

  Parrett, Brian M ^a   Pomahac, Bohdan ^a   Orgill, Dennis P ^a   Pribaz, Julian J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN NECROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BURNS; CERVICOPLASTY; CONTRACTURE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FACIAL INJURIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 37349042203     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000287272.28417.14     Document Type: Article

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