Mode of vascularization of control and basic fibroblast growth factor- stimulated prefabricated skin flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1296-1306

  Hickey, Michael J ^a   Wilson, Yvonne ^b   Hurley, John V ^b   Morrison, Wayne A ^b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; INDIAN INK;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CARBON; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSPHERES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RABBITS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0031924321     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199804050-00021     Document Type: Article

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