Lower Limb Necrosis after Use of the Anterolateral Thigh Free Flap: Is Preoperative Angiography Indicated?

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 315-318

  Hage, J Joris ^a   Woerdeman, Leonie A E ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT PAIN; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LATERAL CIRCUMFLEX FEMORAL ARTERY; LEG DISEASE; LEG PAIN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RELIABILITY; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN SENSATION; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; SYMPTOM; THIGH; VEIN GRAFT;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOOT; GANGRENE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH;

EID: 1542313938     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000100422.66597.13     Document Type: Article

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