Use of free anterolateral thigh perforator flap in the treatment of chronic postburn palmar contractures

Burns

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 275-280

  Uygur, Fatih ^a   Duman, Haluk ^a   Çeliköz, Bahattin ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; BURN SCAR; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCISION REPAIR; EXERCISE; HAND MALFORMATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; KIRSCHNER WIRE; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; PALMAR FASCIA; PARESTHESIA; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANGE OF MOTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; BURNS; CONTRACTURE; HAND DEFORMITIES, ACQUIRED; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38749098110     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2006.10.403     Document Type: Article

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