First dorsal metacarpal artery flap for thumb reconstruction: A retrospective clinical study

Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-33

  Muyldermans, Thomas ^a   Hierner, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

First dorsal metacarpal artery; Flap; Hand; Reconstruction; Thumb; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549100656     PISSN: 18288936     EISSN: 18288928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11751-009-0056-1     Document Type: Article

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