Lessons from the modern battlefield: Successful upper extremity injury reconstruction in the subacute period

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 752-757

  Kumar, Anand R ^a,b   Grewal, Navanjun S ^a   Chung, Thomas L ^b   Bradley, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distant pedicled flaps; Flap; Free tissue transfer; Hand trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; EXPLOSIVE;

ACINETOBACTER; ADIPOFASCIAL FLAP; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DATA ANALYSIS; ELBOW INJURY; FACE INJURY; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HAND INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OPEN FRACTURE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRUNK INJURY; VENOUS CONGESTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AMPUTATION; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; METACARPAL BONES; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIUS FRACTURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; ULNA FRACTURES; UNITED STATES; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72449141784     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181808115     Document Type: Article

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