Comparison of free anterolateral thigh flaps and free muscle- musculocutaneous flaps in soft tissue reconstruction of lower extremity

Microsurgery

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-31

  Demirtas, Yener ^a   Kelahmetoglu, Osman ^a   Cifci, Mehmet ^a   Tayfur, Volkan ^a   Demir, Ahmet ^a   Guneren, Ethem ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKIN SURGERY; SOFT TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74549217039     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20696     Document Type: Article

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