The thoracoacromial vessels as recipient vessels in microsurgery and supermicrosurgery: An anatomical and sonographic study

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-83

  Kompatscher, Peter ^b   Manestar, Mirjana ^b   Schuster, Antonius ^b   Lang, Axel ^b   Beer, Gertrude M ^a  

^a Univ Hosp (Acad Medical Center)   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLAVICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNUM; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 13244289804     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000146034.16752.68     Document Type: Article

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