Study of the delay phenomenon in the rat tram flap model

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 1018-1024

  Ege Ozgenta, H ^a,b   Shenaq, Saleh ^a   Spira, Melvin ^a  

^a Department of Plastic Surgery Akdeniz University Medical School ^*  (United States)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MALE; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN LIGATION;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MALE; NECROSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0028104338     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199412000-00016     Document Type: Article

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