Outcome of simultaneous and staged microvascular free tissue transfer connected to arteriovenous loops in areas lacking recipient vessels

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1568-1575

  Vogt, Peter M ^a   Steinau, Hans Ulrich ^b   Spies, Marcus ^b   Kall, Susanne ^b   Steiert, Andreas ^b   Boorboor, Pejman ^b   Vaske, Bernd ^b   Jokuszies, Andreas ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; THROMBOSIS; VEIN GRAFT; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CHILD; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38449119604     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000282102.19951.6f     Document Type: Article

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