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Free flap fricasse: iatrogenic thermal injury to a lateral arm flap. 1989

J F Noon, and V K Rao, and R C Mixter

Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

An iatrogenic thermal injury to a lateral-arm free tissue transfer is described. The thermal characteristics of the injurious agent are documented. Free tissue thermal conductivity and reparative potential are discussed.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D011183	Postoperative Complications	Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.	Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D005260	Female		Females
D005627	Frostbite	Damage to tissues as the result of low environmental temperatures.	Frostbites
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults
D013524	Surgical Flaps	Tongues of skin and subcutaneous tissue, sometimes including muscle, cut away from the underlying parts but often still attached at one end. They retain their own microvasculature which is also transferred to the new site. They are often used in plastic surgery for filling a defect in a neighboring region.	Island Flap,Island Flaps,Flap, Surgical,Flaps, Surgical,Pedicled Flap,Surgical Flap,Flap, Island,Flap, Pedicled,Flaps, Island,Flaps, Pedicled,Pedicled Flaps

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