The extended anterolateral thigh flap: Anatomical basis and clinical experience

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1245-1255

  Saint Cyr, Michel ^a   Schaverien, Mark ^a   Wong, Corrine ^a   Nagarkar, Purushottam ^a   Arbique, Gary ^a   Brown, Spencer ^a   Rohrich, Rod J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMORAL VEIN; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67749089225     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31819e2718     Document Type: Article

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