Treatment of giant omphalocele with intraabdominal tissue expansion

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1564-1567

  Tenenbaum, Marissa J ^a   Foglia, Robert P ^a   Becker, Devra B ^a   Kane, Alex A ^a,b  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; OMPHALOCELE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ULCER; TISSUE EXPANSION; WOUND DRESSING; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 38449086976     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000282091.40103.6b     Document Type: Article

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