A rare variant of the deep inferior epigastric perforator: Importance of preoperative color-flow duplex scanning assessment [14]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1578-1579

  Yano, Kenji ^a   Hosokawa, Ko ^b   Nakai, Kunihiro ^b   Kubo, Tateki ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR ARTERY; DEVICE; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LETTER; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 0037375559     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200304010-00051     Document Type: Letter

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3. Rand, R. P., Cramer, M. M., and Strandness, D. E., Jr. Color-flow duplex scanning in the preoperative assessment of TRAM flap perforators: A report of 32 consecutive patients. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 93: 453, 1994.