Long-term functional donor site morbidity after ulnar forearm flap harvest

Head and Neck

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1312-1316

  Sieg, Peter ^a   Dericioglu, Mete ^a   Hansmann, Cathrin ^a   Jacobsen, Hans Christian ^a   Trenkle, Thomas ^a   Hakim, Samer G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

donor site morbidity; microsurgery; ulnar forearm flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITIES OF ARM, SHOULDER, AND HAND QUESTIONNAIRE; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; ULNAR FOREARM FLAP HARVEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANT DONOR SITE;

EID: 84864982843     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21918     Document Type: Article

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