Reply: Muscle Flap Transposition for the Management of Intrathoracic Fistulas

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Thoracic Surgery.
² Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn.

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K Robert Shen et al. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2021.

. 2021 May 1;147(5):896e-897e.

doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000007835.

¹ Division of General Thoracic Surgery.
² Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, Minn.

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Muscle Flap Transposition for the Management of Intrathoracic Fistulas.
Asaad M, Van Handel A, Akhavan AA, Huang TCT, Rajesh A, Allen MA, Shen KR, Sharaf B, Moran SL. Asaad M, et al. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2020 Apr;145(4):829e-838e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000006670. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2020. PMID: 32221235
Muscle Flap Transposition for the Management of Intrathoracic Fistulas.
Srinivasa D, Patel H, Sherman R. Srinivasa D, et al. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2021 May 1;147(5):895e-896e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000007834. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2021. PMID: 33878098 No abstract available.

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