Double free flaps harvested from one or two donor sites for one or two-staged burn reconstruction: Models of sequential-link and independent-link microanastomoses

Burns

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 729-738

  Mardini, Samir ^a   Tsai, Feng Chou ^a   Yang, Jui Yung ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Burns; Free flaps; Microsurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEBRIDEMENT; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FINGER INJURY; FOOT MALFORMATION; FREE SKIN GRAFT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; NECK MUSCLE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PLASTIC SURGERY; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN SCAR; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE INJURY; WOUND DRESSING;

ADULT; BURNS; BURNS, ELECTRIC; CICATRIX; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 4744366671     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.03.009     Document Type: Article

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