Reliability of the superficial venous drainage of the radial forearm free flaps in oral and maxillofacial reconstruction

Microsurgery

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 243-247

  Liu, Yuan ^a   Jiang, Xiaozhong ^a   Huang, Jiantao ^a   Wu, Yang ^a   Wang, Guodong ^a   Jiang, Lei ^a   Li, Wai ^a   Zhao, Yunfu ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; ORAL SURGERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RELIABILITY; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOREARM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY, ORAL; SURGICAL FLAPS; VEINS;

EID: 44449154385     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20489     Document Type: Article

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