Modified flap design for symmetric reconstruction of the apical triangle of the upper lip

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 905-911

  Johnson Jahangir, Hillary ^a   Stevenson, Mary ^b   Ratner, Désirée ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHEEK; CHEEK ADVANCEMENT FLAP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; INFECTION; LIP RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NASOLABIAL FOLD; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC GRANULOMA; TISSUE FLAP; UPPER LIP;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CHEEK; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIP; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861827438     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2012.02404.x     Document Type: Article

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