Assessment of donor-site morbidity following rectus femoris harvest for infrainguinal reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 933-940

  Sbitany, Hani ^a,b   Koltz, Peter F ^a,b   Girotto, John A ^a,b   Vega, Stephen J ^a,b   Langstein, Howard N ^a,b  

^a Box 661 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION;

FEMALE; GROIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 77956473881     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181e604a1     Document Type: Article

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