Complex perineal and groin wound reconstruction using the extended dissection technique of the gracilis flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 472-478

  Ducic, Ivica ^a   Dayan, Joseph H ^a   Attinger, Christopher E ^a   Curry, Patrick ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISSECTION; GRACILIS FLAP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; PERINEUM INJURY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SARTORIUS MUSCLE; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; GROIN; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PERINEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67749089277     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817d607d     Document Type: Article

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