Free flaps harvested from paralytic lower extremities in patients with late polio sequel.

Plast Reconstr Surg

Department of Plastic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung Medical College, Chang Gung University, Taiwan.

Published: July 2006

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