Innovative Techniques in Preventing and Salvaging Neurovascular Pedicle Flaps in Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Surgery

Foot & Ankle Specialist

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-104

  Zgonis, Thomas ^a   Stapleton, John J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Valley Sports and Arthritis Surgeons   (United States)

Author keywords

external fixation; hydrosurgery; limb salvage; pedicle flaps; reconstructive surgery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANKLE; DEBRIDEMENT; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FOOT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LEECH; LIMB SALVAGE; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; REVIEW; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ANKLE; DEBRIDEMENT; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FOOT; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77449092878     PISSN: 19386400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938640008315379     Document Type: Review

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