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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Georg Thieme Verlag KG
2019-07-01
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Series: | Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery Open |
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Online Access: | http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0039-3399573 |