Perforator-based anterolateral thigh adipofascial or dermal fat flaps for facial contour augmentation

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 497-504

  Wolff, Klaus Dietrich ^a,b   Kesting, Marco ^a   Löffelbein, Dennis ^a   Hölzle, Frank ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adipofascial flaps; ALT flap; Soft tissue augmentation

Indexed keywords

ADIPOFASCIAL FLAP; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACE SURGERY; FACIAL CONTOUR AUGMENTATION; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL ATROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PERFORATOR FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCLERODERMA; SKIN FLAP; SUPERFICIAL TEMPORAL ARTERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; ADIPOSE TISSUE; FACE INJURY; FACE TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; FACIAL HEMIATROPHY; FACIAL INJURIES; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 43049156488     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-992349     Document Type: Article

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