Flap prefabrication: Effectiveness of different vascular carriers

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 298-304

  Tark, Kwan Chul ^a   Tuchler, Robert E ^b   Shaw, William W ^b  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIAN INK;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISSECTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FLUOROMETRY; KIENBOECK DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN FLAP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 9444267855     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199609000-00011     Document Type: Article

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