Free-style flaps: A further step forward for perforator flap surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2009, Pages

  Wallace, Christopher Glenn ^a   Kao, Huang Kai ^a   Jeng, Seng Feng ^a   Wei, Fu Chan ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSECTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; REVIEW; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

DISSECTION; HUMANS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 75549092248     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181bcf189     Document Type: Review

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