The free descending branch muscle-sparing latissimus dorsi flap: Vascular anatomy and clinical applications

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Colohan, Shannon ^a   Wong, Corrine ^a   Lakhiani, Chrisovalantis ^a   Cheng, Angela ^a   Maia, Munique ^a   Arbique, Gary ^a   Saint Cyr, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE INJURY; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HAND INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERFORATOR FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANKLE INJURIES; ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERFORATOR FLAP; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84870871587     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31826d9c5e     Document Type: Article

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