Anatomical bases of the free posterior brachial fascial flap

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 393-399

  Wavreille, Guillaume ^a   Bricout, Jérôme ^a   Mouliade, Sébastien ^a   Lemoine, Stéphane ^a   Prodhomme, Grégory ^b   Khanchandani, Prakash ^a   Chantelot, Christophe ^a   Fontaine, Christian ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b SOS Hands and Fingers Center   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Fingers; Free flap; Hand; Posterior brachial fascia

Indexed keywords

ADIPOFASCIAL FLAP; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CADAVER; DONOR SITE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULARIZATION; AGED; BRACHIAL ARTERY; FASCIA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CADAVER; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 77954726994     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-009-0576-x     Document Type: Article

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