Venous interruption is unnecessary to achieve an adequate delay in the rat TRAM flap model

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 300-305

  Sano, Kazufumi ^a,b   Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a,b,c   Rice, David C ^a,b  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; VEIN LIGATION;

EID: 0037214369     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200301000-00051     Document Type: Article

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