Scalp free flap reconstruction using anterolateral thigh flap pedicle for interposition artery and vein grafts

Archives of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-58

  Park, Jun Hyung ^a   Min, Kyung Hee ^a   Eun, Suk Chan ^b   Lee, Jong Hoon ^a   Hong, Sung Hee ^a   Kim, Chin Whan ^a  

^a Eulji General Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Free tissue flaps; Scalp; Vascular grafting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CASE REPORT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEALING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LATERAL CIRCUMFLEX FEMORAL ARTERY; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; SCALP RECONSTRUCTION; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN SURGERY; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; VASCULAR PEDICLE; VEIN; VEIN GRAFT; VENAE COMITANTES;

EID: 84864780588     PISSN: 22346163     EISSN: 22346171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5999/aps.2012.39.1.55     Document Type: Article

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