Free Flap Transfer with Arteriovenous Loop Establishment for Upper Limb Salvage in a Crush Injury

Free Flap Transfer with Arteriovenous Loop Establishment for Upper Limb Salvage in a Crush Injury

Summary:. Constructing arteriovenous (AV) loops saves a crushed limb when healthy recipient vessels are unavailable at the site of injury by supporting a transferred free flap. Literature about using AV loops in the upper limb defect is scarce. We present a case with a devastating upper limb crush i...

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Main Authors: Mohammad S. Radwan, MD, Ammar Z. Barakat, MD, Mohammad M. Jaber, MD, Ashraf A. Mashal, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2018-11-01
Series:Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/10.1097/GOX.0000000000001913

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