Reconstruction of large palatal defects using the free anterolateral thigh flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 618-622

  Özkan, Ömer ^a   Özkan, Özlenen ^a   Coskunfirat, O Koray ^a   Hadimioǧlu, Necmiye ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

anterolateral thigh flap; palate; reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; JAW TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PALATE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THIGH; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALATAL NEOPLASMS; PALATE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THIGH; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958050335     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181e35cd8     Document Type: Article

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