Outcomes of flap salvage with medicinal leech therapy

Microsurgery

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 351-357

  Nguyen, Marilyn Q ^a   Crosby, Melissa A ^b   Skoracki, Roman J ^b   Hanasono, Matthew M ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SALVAGE; HEMATOMA; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENOUS CONGESTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LEECHING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863725358     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.21960     Document Type: Article

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