Customized reconstruction with the free anterolateral thigh perforator flap

Microsurgery

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 489-494

  Engel, Holger ^a   Gazyakan, Emre ^a   Cheng, Ming Huei ^b   Piel, David ^a   Germann, Guenter ^a   Giessler, Goetz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FIBULA FRACTURE; FOOT INJURY; GRAFT FAILURE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HAND INJURY; HUMAN; JOINT FRACTURE; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN GRAFT; SKULL FRACTURE; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; TIBIA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE INJURIES; FEMALE; FOOT INJURIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL FRACTURES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54949110525     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20538     Document Type: Article

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