Patient self-report of disability of the upper extremity following osteocutaneous radial forearm free flap harvest

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1479-1484

  Deleyiannis, Frederic W B ^a,b   Sacks, Justin M ^a,b   McLean, Kia M ^a,b   Russavage, James M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; OSTEOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PINCH STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RANGE OF MOTION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ARM; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; HAND STRENGTH; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RADIUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THUMB; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREARM; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIUS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THUMB; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 58149156225     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181882129     Document Type: Article

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