Free flap neovascularization: Fact or fiction?

European Journal of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-4

  Arnez, Zoran M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CIRCULATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEALING; HUMAN; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; MICROSURGERY; NOTE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0038175943     PISSN: 0930343X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00238-002-0458-5     Document Type: Note

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