Internal mammary veins: Classification and surgical use in free-tissue transfer

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-24

  Schwabegger, Anton H ^a,b   Ninković, Milomir M ^a   Moriggl, Bernhard ^a   Waldenberger, Peter ^a   Brenner, Erich ^a   Wechselberger, Gottfried ^a   Anderl, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Universitatsklinik fur Plastische   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; THORAX WALL DEFECT; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION; VEIN;

EID: 0031059685     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1063936     Document Type: Article

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