Component separation improves outcomes in VRAM flap donor sites with excessive fascial tension

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1573-1580

  Baumann, Donald P ^a   Butler, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FASCIA; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FASCIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650178061     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181ef8d00     Document Type: Article

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