A survey of microvascular protocols for lower extremity free tissue transfer ii: Postoperative care

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 280-284

  Xipoleas, George ^a   Levine, Elie ^a   Silver, Lester ^a   Koch, R Michael ^a   Taub, Peter J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG MOVEMENT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NURSING STAFF; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SURGEON; CLASSIFICATION; FOLLOW UP; LEG; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; MICROSURGERY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SURGERY, PLASTIC; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 53149154504     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181579900     Document Type: Article

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