The use of supermicrosurgery in lower extremity reconstruction: The next step in evolution

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 230-235

  Hong, Joon Pio ^a,b  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; KNEE; LEG; MICROSURGERY; MOBILIZATION; OPERATION DURATION; PERFORATOR FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURVIVAL; INTERNAL FIXATOR; LEG INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 60549084331     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181904dc4     Document Type: Article

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