A modification of the facial artery musculomucosal flap for palatal reconstruction in patients with intact dentition

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 645-647

  Matros, Evan ^a,b   Swanson, Edward W ^a,b   Pribaz, Julian J ^a,b  

^a Harvard Medical School ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DENTITION; FACE; FEMALE; FISTULA; HISTIOCYTOMA; HUMAN; JAW TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PALATE; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ARTERIES; DENTITION, PERMANENT; FACE; FEMALE; FISTULA; HISTIOCYTOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PALATAL NEOPLASMS; PALATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 76949101569     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181c87b25     Document Type: Article

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