Reliable assessment of skin flap viability using orthogonal polarization imaging

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 547-555

  Olivier, Wendy Ann M ^b   Hazen, Alexes ^b   Levine, Jamie P ^b   Soltanian, Hooman ^b   Chung, Seum ^b   Gurtner, Geoffrey C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NECROSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION IMAGING; PERFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN FLAP;

ANIMALS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NECROSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSILLUMINATION;

EID: 0042631376     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000070968.42857.43     Document Type: Article

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