Free dorsoulnar perforator flap transfers for the reconstruction of severely injured digits

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 411-420

  Inada, Yuji ^a,b   Tamai, Susum ^a   Kawanishi, Kouichi ^a   Omokawa, Syouhei ^a   Akahane, Manabu ^a   Shimobayashi, Mikio ^a   Tsuruzono, Masashi ^a   Takakura, Yoshinobu ^a   Inada, Michio ^a  

^a Inada Hospital ^*

^b Inada Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGITAL ARTERY; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FINGER INJURY; FINGER ISCHEMIA; FINGER REPLANTATION; FREE DORSOULNAR PERFORATOR FLAP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVASCULARIZATION; SCAR; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE NECROSIS; ULNAR ARTERY; VASCULAR PATENCY; ADOLESCENT; FINGER; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REIMPLANTATION; REOPERATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; THERMOGRAPHY; THUMB; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANGIOGRAPHY; CICATRIX; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; FINGERS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; REPLANTATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THERMOGRAPHY; THUMB; ULNAR ARTERY;

EID: 4344589797     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000131881.42438.93     Document Type: Article

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