The thoracodorsal artery perforator flap: Clinical experience and anatomic study with emphasis on harvest techniques

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 32-41

  Guerra, Aldo Benjamin ^a,b   Metzinger, Stephen Eric ^a   Lund, Kiersten Maria ^a   Cooper, Michelle Maria ^a   Allen, Robert Johnson ^a   Dupin, Charles Louis ^a  

^a Louisiana State Univ Hlth Sci C ^*

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIV HLTH SCI C   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRACTURE; FISTULA; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL DEFECT; SUPPURATIVE HIDRADENITIS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACODORSAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; THROMBOSIS; AXILLA; CADAVER; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; ORAL SURGERY; SKULL; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AXILLA; CADAVER; HIDRADENITIS SUPPURATIVA; HUMANS; MALE; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 4444288123     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000129071.03842.C5     Document Type: Article

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