Pedicled flaps for lower extremity reconstruction in the elderly: A retrospective study of 16 cases

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 368-372

  Dumont, Charles E ^a,b   Neumann, Hanna ^a   Lingenfelter, Erich J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ankle; Elderly; Knee; Leg; Pedicled flap; Reconstructive surgery; Surgical complications; Tissue transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LEG DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN NECROSIS; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; THROMBECTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 4644247855     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000135138.45902.52     Document Type: Review

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