Plating in microvascular reconstruction of the mandible: Can fixation be too rigid?

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1451-1454

  Zoumalan, Richard A ^a,c   Hirsch, David L ^b   Levine, Jamie P ^a   Saadeh, Pierre B ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c Skirball Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bone growth; Fixation; Mandible reconstruction; Miniplates; Recon plates; Rigidity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; BONE REGENERATION; DEVICE; FIBULA GRAFT; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BONE PLATES; BONE RESORPTION; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DENTAL IMPLANTATION, ENDOSSEOUS; DENTAL IMPLANTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR NEOPLASMS; MICROSURGERY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; OSSEOINTEGRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 70349694730     PISSN: 10492275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e3181af156a     Document Type: Article

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