Reconstructive surgery including free flap transfers can be performed in low-resource settings: Experiences from a wartime scenario

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1463-1467

  Tajsic, Nenad B ^a   Husum, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Low resource; Microsurgery; Reconstructive; Trauma; War

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECENTRALIZATION; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LEG INJURY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOSIS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WAR; ADOLESCENT; AMPUTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN EUROPE; FOOT INJURY; HAND INJURY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INNERVATION; LIMB SALVAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; SCAR; SKIN TUMOR; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SOLDIER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; BLAST INJURIES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHILD; CICATRIX; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; FOOT INJURIES; HAND INJURIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR;

EID: 67650576428     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318173f803     Document Type: Article

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