A hemodynamic approach to clinical results in the TRAM flap after selective delay

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1706-1714

  Ribuffo, Diego ^b   Muratori, Luigi ^b   Antoniadou, Kristallia ^b   Fanini, Fiorella ^b   Martelli, Eugenio ^b   Marini, Mario ^b   Messineo, Daniela ^b   Trinci, Margherita ^b   Scuderi, Nicoló ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0031010635     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199705010-00035     Document Type: Article

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