Free Tissue Transfer Optimizes Stump Length and Functionality Following High-Energy Trauma

Background Advances in medicine and surgery have allowed patients, who in the past would have required more aggressive amputations, to maintain longer stump lengths. Microvascular free tissue transfer has become increasingly popular to preserve limb length and optimize functionality. We present our...

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Main Authors: Merisa L. Piper, Dominic Amara, Sarosh N. Zafar, Charles Lee, Hani Sbitany, Scott L. Hansen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery Open
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0039-3399573