Forequarter amputation combined with chest wall resection: A single-center experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1702-1708

  Nierlich, Patrick ^a   Funovics, Philipp ^a   Dominkus, Martin ^a   Aszmann, Oskar ^a   Frey, Manfred ^a   Klepetko, Walter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOREQUARTER AMPUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; METAL IMPLANTATION; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOULDER; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 79957725102     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.02.056     Document Type: Article

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