Strategy for reoperative free flaps after failure of a first flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 962-971

  Baumeister, Steffen ^a   Follmar, Keith E ^a   Zenn, Michael R ^a   Erdmann, Detlev ^a   Levin, L Scott ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FIBULA GRAFT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRACILIS FLAP; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROSURGERY; OSTEOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAPULAR FLAP; SUPERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; VASCULARIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 52049118840     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181811ca0     Document Type: Article

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