Gluteal perforator flaps for coverage of pressure sores at various locations

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2012-2017

  Coşkunfirat, O Koray ^a,b   Özgentaş, H Ege ^a,b  

^a Akdeniz Univ School of Medicine ^*

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BUTTOCK; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE NECROSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BUTTOCKS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE ULCER; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 4444235838     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000122215.48226.3F     Document Type: Article

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