The pedicled gastrocnemius muscle flap: A review of 218 cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 250-257

  Daigeler, Adrien ^a   Drücke, Daniel ^a   Tatar, Karl ^a   Homann, Heinz Herbert ^a   Goertz, Ole ^a   Tilkorn, Daniel ^a   Lehnhardt, Marcus ^a   Steinau, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DYNAMOMETRY; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOINT MOBILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MUSCLE FLAP; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PAIN; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANGE OF MOTION; RUNNING; WALKING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; CHILD; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERONEAL NEUROPATHY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 60549098060     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181904e2e     Document Type: Article

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