Comparisons of medicinal leech therapy with venous catheterization in the treatment of venous congestion of the sural flap

Microsurgery

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-40

  Mozafari, Naser ^a   Ghazisaidi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Hosseini, Seyed Nejat ^a,b   Abdolzadeh, Madjid ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEECHING; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURAL FLAP; SURAL NERVE; TISSUE FLAP; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; VENOUS CONGESTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LEECHING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650969417     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20827     Document Type: Article

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