High-frequency ultrasound: A useful tool for evaluating the abdominal wall following free TRAM and DIEP flap surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1113-1120

  Zhong, Toni ^b   Lao, Aili ^b   Werstein, Melanie S ^b   Downey, Donal B ^b   Evans, H Brian ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE FLAP; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; ULTRASOUND; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; FEMALE; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 33646097926     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000202100.32930.13     Document Type: Article

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