Color duplex sonography for the monitoring of vascularized free bone flaps

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-76

  Schön, Ralf ^a   Schramm, Alexander ^a   Gellrich, Nils Claudius ^a   Maier, Wolfgang ^a   Düker, Jürgen ^a   Schmelzeisen, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR DUPLEX ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBULA; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; SKIN ISLAND FLAP; TISSUE PERFUSION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULARIZED FREE BONE FLAP; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; METHODOLOGY; ORAL SURGERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULARIZATION;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FIBULA; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0041784508     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(03)00486-8     Document Type: Article

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