Monitors for the cutaneous microcirculation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 1984, Pages 843-850

  Jones, Barry M ^a  

^a Mount Vernon Hospital USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER FLOWMETER; MONITORING; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; REVIEW; SKIN MICROCIRCULATION; THERMOMETER; TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN MONITORING;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTROMAGNETICS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEINS; HUMAN; MICROCIRCULATION; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXYGEN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRESSURE; RADIOISOTOPES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SURGICAL FLAPS; THERMOMETERS;

EID: 0021241174     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-198405000-00025     Document Type: Article

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