The thoracoacromial trunk: Alternative recipient vessels in reoperative head and neck reconstructive microsurgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 88-94

  Aycock, Joyce K ^a   Stenson, Kerstin M ^a   Gottlieb, Lawrence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES;

EID: 38049072079     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000293858.11494.96     Document Type: Article

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