Free microvascular iliac crest flap for extensive talar necrosis - Case report with a 16-year long-term follow up

Microsurgery

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 667-671

  Rieger, Ulrich M ^a,b   Haug, Martin ^b   Schwarzl, Franz ^b   Kalbermatten, Daniel F ^b   Hintermann, Beat ^b   Pierer, Gerhard ^a,b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ANKLE PAIN; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BONE GRAFT; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE REMODELING; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; FOOT RADIOGRAPHY; FREE MICROVASCULAR ILIAC CREST BONE FLAP; HEEL PAIN; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; IMMOBILIZATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REHABILITATION CARE; SCINTISCANNING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TALUS; TALUS NECROSIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEONECROSIS; OSTEOTOMY; TALUS; TIBIA; TIBIAL ARTERIES; VEINS;

EID: 73249147146     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20676     Document Type: Article

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