Surgical outcomes of VRAM versus thigh flaps for immediate reconstruction of pelvic and perineal cancer resection defects

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 175-183

  Nelson, Rebecca A ^a   Butler, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CELLULITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS ABSCESS; PELVIS CANCER; PELVIS EXENTERATION; PERINEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; SEROMA; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; THIGH; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTICAL RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS TUMOR; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PERINEUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH;

EID: 60549114863     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181904df7     Document Type: Article

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