Arteriovenous vascular loops in free flap reconstruction of the extremities

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 514-520

  Cavadas, Pedro C ^a  

^a Clinica Cavadas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FIBULA GRAFT; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRACILIS MUSCLE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GREATER OMENTUM; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PENIS AMPUTATION; PERONEUS ARTERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REIMPLANTATION; SCAPULA; SUPERIOR THYROID ARTERY; THIGH; TIBIAL ARTERY; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND INJURY; LEG INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40749160467     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000297634.53915.e5     Document Type: Article

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