Free-style free flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 910-916

  Wei, Fu Chan ^a,b   Mardini, Samir ^a,b  

^a Chang Gung University ^*

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MOUTH CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 5444264591     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000133171.65075.81     Document Type: Article

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