Free flap options for reconstruction of complicated scalp and calvarial defects: Report of a series of cases and literature review

Microsurgery

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-18

  Chang, Kao Ping ^a,b   Lai, Ching Hung ^a,b   Chang, Chih Hau ^a   Lin, Chih Lung ^a,b   Lai, Chung Sheng ^a,b   Lin, Sin Daw ^a,b  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; CALVARIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; CRANIECTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SCHOOL CHILD; SHUNTING; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKULL CANCER; SKULL DEFECT; SKULL INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCALP; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74549146185     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20698     Document Type: Article

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