Free Flap Surgery for Elbow Soft Tissue Reconstruction Using the Brachial Artery as Recipient Vessel: Evaluation of MPETS Cases and Comparative Literature Review.

Mitsutoshi Ota, Makoto Motomiya, Naoya Watanabe, Kazuya Kitaguchi, Norimasa Iwasaki

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Synthesis in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Mitsutoshi OtaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Obihiro Kosei Hospital Hand Center, Obihiro 080-0024, Japan.

Makoto MotomiyaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Obihiro Kosei Hospital Hand Center, Obihiro 080-0024, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6204-6229

Naoya WatanabeDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Obihiro Kosei Hospital Hand Center, Obihiro 080-0024, Japan.

Kazuya KitaguchiDepartment of Radiological Technology, Obihiro Kosei Hospital, Obihiro 080-0024, Japan.

Norimasa IwasakiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0808, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5496-4046

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Brachial ArteryElbowFree Tissue FlapsPlastic Surgery ProceduresAdultAgedAnastomosis, SurgicalElbow JointFemaleHumansMaleMicrosurgeryMiddle AgedRetrospective Studiesbrachial arteryelbowend-to-side anastomosisfree flapsoft tissue defect

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PMID40005414

DOI10.3390/medicina61020295

PMCPMC11857833

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