Lessons from operation iraqi freedom: Successful subacute reconstruction of complex lower extremity battle injuries

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 218-229

  Kumar, Anand R ^a   Grewal, Navanjun S ^a   Chung, Thomas L ^a   Bradley, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADIPOFASCIAL FLAP; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRAQ; LIMB; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; WOUND; WOUND CLOSURE; DISABILITY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FREEDOM; INTENSIVE CARE; LEG INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIME; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FREEDOM; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LEG INJURIES; MALE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SUBACUTE CARE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 60549103878     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181904da9     Document Type: Article

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