Internal mammary vessels as a model for power Doppler imaging of recipient vessels in microsurgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1656-1661

  Schwabegger, Anton H ^a   Bodner, Gerd ^a   Rieger, Michael ^a   Jaschke, Werner R ^a   Ninkovic, M M ^a  

^a Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Biochemistry   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VEINS;

EID: 0032709676     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199911000-00007     Document Type: Article

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