Review of 197 consecutive free flap reconstructions in the lower extremity
✍ Scribed by Reto Wettstein; Roland Schürch; Andrej Banic; Dominique Erni; Yves Harder
- Book ID
- 119201411
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 272 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1878-0539
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