Twenty-one cases of skin defects of the hand were treated with venous flaps. According to type, nine flaps were arterialised flaps (A-A), five were (A-V), and seven were (V-V) type. Venous flaps can be used up to 8 x 3 cm in size or even bigger if the number of veins anastomosed is increased. The ma
Clinical applications of venous flaps in the reconstruction of hands and fingers
β Scribed by Hede Yan; Feng Zhang; Ovunc Akdemir; Somjade Songcharoen; Nicholas I. Jones; Michael Angel; Darrell Brook
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 399 KB
- Volume
- 131
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-3916
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