Preoperative color Doppler assessment in planning of anterolateral thigh flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 241-246

  Tsukino, Akihiko ^a,b,c   Kurachi, Kishiro ^a,b   Inamiya, Tomomi ^a,b   Tanigaki, Takehiko ^a,b  

^a Osaka Rosai Hospital ^*

^b OSAKA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; THIGH; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; FLOW KINETICS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEOLOGY; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 1242264455     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000095949.41413.88     Document Type: Article

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