Review of monitoring free muscle flap transfers in reconstructive surgery: role of 99mtc sestamibi scintigraphy

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-98

  Top, Husamettin ^a   Sarikaya, Ali ^b   Aygit, A Cemal ^b   Benlier, Erol ^b   Kiyak, Medeni ^b  

^a Departments of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery   (Turkey)

^b TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Free muscle flap; Scintigraphy; Viability

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING ORGAN SYSTEMS; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT; FOOT DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SCINTISCANNING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; DIABETIC FOOT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FOOT ULCER; GRACILIS MUSCLE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN TISSUE; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MUSCLE PERFUSION; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOT; FOOT DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645240821     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200601000-00013     Document Type: Article

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