Twelve simple maneuvers to optimize digital replantation and revascularization

Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 161-166

  Chang, James ^a   Jones, Neil ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger amputation; Hand trauma; Mutilating hand injuries; Replantation; Revascularization

Indexed keywords

SUTURE MATERIAL;

AGING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; FINGER AMPUTATION; FINGER REPLANTATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; GRAFT FAILURE; HAND INJURY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; KIRSCHNER WIRE; MENTAL DISEASE; MICROSURGERY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PULSE OXIMETRY; REVASCULARIZATION; RIGIDITY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE REMOVAL; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 4644231314     PISSN: 10893393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.bth.0000134711.75677.3b     Document Type: Article

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