Reconstruction of advanced-stage electrical hand injury in a one stage procedure using a prefabricated medial lateral crural composite flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 626-630

  Jiang, Hao ^a   Li, Qing Feng ^a   Gu, Bin ^a   Fu, Kaiding ^b   Zheng, Danning ^a   Liu, Kai ^a   Shen, Guoxiong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite flap; Electrical burn; Prefabricated flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE SKIN GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC INJURY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FINGER; FOLLOW UP; HAND INJURY; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLAP; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; SKIN SENSATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SURAL NERVE; ADHESION; CONTRACTURE; EVALUATION; HAND; HYPESTHESIA; INNERVATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; TENDON; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADHESIONS; ADULT; CONTRACTURE; ELECTRIC INJURIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TENDONS;

EID: 45549103668     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e318137a49e     Document Type: Article

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