First aid for failing flaps

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 513-515

  Talbot, Simon G ^a   Pribaz, Julian J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

arterial insufficiency; Flap; thrombosis; venous congestion

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; FIRST AID; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS CONGESTION;

FEMALE; FIRST AID; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPARIN; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LEECHING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956963172     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1261697     Document Type: Article

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