Surgical technique in pedicled thoracodorsal artery perforator flaps: A clinical experience with 99 patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1632-1641

  Hamdi, Moustapha ^a   Van Landuyt, Koenraad ^a   Hijjawi, John B ^a   Roche, Nathalie ^a   Blondeel, Phillip ^a   Monstrey, Stan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; THORACODORSAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BURNS; DISSECTION; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HIDRADENITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SARCOMA; SHOULDER; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 43149123780     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31816c3bfa     Document Type: Article

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