Chronic deep venous thrombosis in the peroneal veins of the fibula osteocutaneous flap: Strategies for avoidance and salvage

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2020-2023

  Taghinia, Amir H ^a   Pribaz, Julian J ^a   Guo, Lifei ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMELOBLASTOMA; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BONE GRAFT; CASE REPORT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FIBULA GRAFT; FRACTURE FIXATION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LEG VEIN; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; OSTEOTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FIBULA; FOLLOW UP; LEG; MANDIBLE TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; MANDIBULAR NEOPLASMS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 48049114630     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181707292     Document Type: Article

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