Cranial epigastric perforator flap: A rat model of a true perforator flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 393-397

  Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a,b   Rice, David C ^a  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DISSECTION; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FASCIA; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; MALE; MODEL; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKIN; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING;

ANIMALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0037380463     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000041485.73158.CB     Document Type: Article

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