Three kinds of forearm flaps for hand skin defects: Experience of 65 cases

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 675-680

  Liu, Dong Xin ^a   Wang, Hu ^a   Li, Xue Dong ^a   Du, Shi Xin ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hand; Reverse forearm flap; Soft tissue defect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; COLD TOLERANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HAND MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PALMAR FASCIA; POSTERIOR INTEROSSEOUS ARTERY FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN FLAP; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; ULNAR ARTERY;

ADULT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955942567     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-010-1214-0     Document Type: Article

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