Free flap monitoring with continuous tissue oxygen tension measurement

European Journal of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 507-512

  Sinis, N ^a   Rennekampff, H O ^a   Haerle, M ^a   Schaller, H E ^a  

^a Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Unfallklinik Tubingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free flap monitoring; Microcatheter; Oxygen tension; pO2 monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LIMB INJURY; MONITORING; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 33645893468     PISSN: 0930343X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00238-006-0032-7     Document Type: Article

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