The role of intrathoracic free flaps for chronic empyema

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 865-868

  Walsh, Mark D ^a   Bruno, Anthony D ^b   Onaitis, Mark W ^b   Erdmann, Detlev ^b   Wolfe, Walter G ^b   Toloza, Eric M ^b   Levin, L Scott ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; BLOOD VESSEL; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CIRCUMFLEX HUMERAL VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMPYEMA; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRACILIS FLAP; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL ARTERY; INTERCOSTAL VEIN; LENGTH OF STAY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THORACOACROMIAL ARTERY; THORACODORSAL ARTERY; THORACODORSAL VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC CAVITY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951994092     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.10.019     Document Type: Article

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