Comparison of two different delay procedures in a rat skin flap model

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1591-1597

  Yang, Daping ^a   Morris, Steven F ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; SKIN NECROSIS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MALE; NECROSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031721126     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199810000-00039     Document Type: Article

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