Duplex ultrasound imaging in free transverse rectus abdominis muscle, deep inferior epigastric artery perforator, and superior gluteal artery perforator flaps: Early and long-term comparison of perfusion changes in free flaps following breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-121

  Heitland, Andreas S ^a   Markowicz, Martha ^a   Koellensperger, Eva ^a   Schoth, Felix ^a   Feller, Axel Mario ^b   Pallua, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Duplex ultrasound; Free flaps; Perforator flaps; Perfusion changes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARTERIES; BLOOD VOLUME; BREAST; BUTTOCKS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 22944447126     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000168690.00981.27     Document Type: Article

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