MOC-PSSM CME article: Metacarpal fractures

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 1S MOC-PS CME COL, 2008, Pages

  Chin, Simon H ^a   Vedder, Nicholas B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ANESTHESIA; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST MALFORMATION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CERTIFICATION; CONSULTATION; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DONOR SITE; FAMILY HISTORY; FAT NECROSIS; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INCISION; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LUNG EMBOLISM; MASTECTOMY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NIPPLE; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SEROMA; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; SURGICAL TRAINING; THORAX EXAMINATION; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; FRACTURE; INJURY; METACARPAL BONE; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; METACARPAL BONES;

EID: 38049023507     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000294704.48126.8c     Document Type: Review

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