Compound flap from the great toe and vascularized joints from the second toe for posttraumatic thumb reconstruction at the level of the proximal metacarpal bone

Microsurgery

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 178-183

  Tsai, Tsu Min ^a,b   D'Agostino, Laura ^a   Fang, You Sheng ^a   Tien, Huey ^b  

^a CHRISTINE M KLEINERT INSTITUTE FOR HAND AND MICROSURGERY   (United States)

^b Kleinert Kutz and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MALE; METACARPAL BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THUMB AMPUTATION; THUMB RECONSTRUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THUMB; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 63049116510     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20592     Document Type: Article

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