New Method of Preparing a Pectoralis Major Myocutaneous Flap with a Skin Paddle that Includes the Third Intercostal Perforating Branch of the Internal Thoracic Artery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1220-1228

  Rikimaru, Hideaki ^a   Kiyokawa, Kensuke ^a   Watanabe, Koichi ^a   Koga, Noriyuki ^a   Nishi, Yukiko ^a   Sakamoto, Aritaka ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FISTULA; GRAFT PERFUSION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; MOUTH MALFORMATION; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NECK MALFORMATION; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOACROMIAL ARTERY; TISSUE NECROSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 67749130863     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31819f2967     Document Type: Article

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