Color doppler ultrasonography in the planning of microvascular augmented "super-thin" flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 822-828

  Ogawa, Rei ^a   Hyakusoku, Hiko ^b   Murakami, Masahiro ^b  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN CONTRACTURE; BURN SCAR; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN GRAFT; SUBDERMAL VASCULAR NETWORK FLAP; SUPER THIN FLAP; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; BURNS; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NECK; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0042475328     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000070176.30065.65     Document Type: Article

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