Advanced cranial reconstruction using intracranial free flaps and cranial bone grafts: An algorithmic approach developed from the modern battlefield

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1101-1109

  Kumar, Anand R ^a,b   Tantawi, Diya ^a   Armonda, Rocco ^a   Valerio, Ian ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BLAST INJURY; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FRONTAL BONE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL; SKULL BASE; SOLDIER; TRANSPLANTATION; WAR;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; ALGORITHMS; BLAST INJURIES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; FRONTAL BONE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; SKULL BASE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871742519     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318267d5cb     Document Type: Article

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