Availability of end-to-side arterial anastomosis to the external carotid artery using short-thread double-needle microsuture in free-flap transfer for head and neck reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-175

  Okazaki, Mutsumi ^a   Asato, Hirotaka ^a   Sarukawa, Shunji ^a   Takushima, Akihiko ^b   Nakatsuka, Takashi ^c   Harii, Kiyonori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

End to side arterial anastomosis; Free flap transfer; Head and neck reconstruction; Short thread double needle microsuture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INTIMA; IRRADIATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT THREAD DOUBLE NEEDLE MICROSUTURE; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SURGEON; SUTURING METHOD; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TUNICA MEDIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33645086634     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000197620.03306.2f     Document Type: Article

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