Soft-tissue coverage and outcome of gustilo grade IIIB midshaft tibia fractures: A 15-year experience

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 479-485

  Choudry, Umar ^a   Moran, Steven ^a   Karacor, Zeynep ^a  

^a Division of Plastic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEALING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSCLE FLAP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIBIA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CHILD; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67749120504     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817d60e0     Document Type: Article

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