Reconstruction after wide excision of primary cutaneous melanomas: part II-the extremities

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 810-815

  Moncrieff, Marc D ^c   Thompson, John F ^a,b   Quinn, Michael J ^a,b   Stretch, Jonathan R ^a,b  

^a MELANOMA INSTITUTE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTHETICS; FOOT MALFORMATION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MELANOMA; MOBILIZATION; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN SURGERY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MELANOMA; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67651154319     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(09)70121-4     Document Type: Review

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