## Abstract The selection of receiving vessels is one of the most critical steps in ensuring a successful outcome in microvascular surgery. The use of interposition grafts in microsurgery offers the surgeon valuable options when the free flaps vascular pedicles are too short to be anastomosed direc
Current roles of adipofascial anterolateral thigh flap in head and neck reconstructions
β Scribed by Tommaso Agostini; Vittorugo Agostini; Davide Lazzeri
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 116 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1043-3074
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