Staged reconstruction for resection wounds in sarcoma patients treated with brachytherapy

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-63

  Heller, Lior ^a   Ballo, Matthew T ^a   Cormier, Janice N ^a   Oates, Scott D ^a   Butler, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Microsurgery; Radiotherapy; Sarcoma; Surgical flaps; VAC; Vacuum assisted closure; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLYSIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SARCOMA; SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA; TONSIL CANCER; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; WOUND; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SARCOMA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 39849106932     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000258956.66990.9a     Document Type: Article

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