Penile reconstruction: Is the radial forearm flap really the standard technique?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 510-518

  Monstrey, Stan ^a   Hoebeke, Piet ^a   Selvaggi, Gennaro ^a   Ceulemans, Peter ^a   Van Landuyt, Koen ^a   Blondeel, Phillip ^a   Hamdi, Moustapha ^a   Roche, Nathalie ^a   Weyers, Steven ^a   De Cuypere, Griet ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MICTURITION; MORBIDITY; NERVE COMPRESSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENILE RECONSTRUCTION; PENIS APLASIA; PENIS DISEASE; PENIS PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOUCH; URETHRA OBSTRUCTION; URETHROPLASTY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSSEXUALISM; URINATION;

EID: 69249085399     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181aeeb06     Document Type: Article

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