Deep vein thrombosis in donor or recipient veins encountered during lower extremity reconstruction with a free anterolateral thigh perforator flap: How do we deal with it?
BackgroundThe free anterolateral thigh perforator (ALTP) flap has been successfully adopted to reconstruct traumatic soft tissue defects in the lower extremities. However, the occurrence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in donor or recipient veins has been overlooked, and there has been no reliable gui...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-09-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Surgery |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsurg.2022.985245/full |