The versatility of the inter-costal artery perforator (ICAP) flaps

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 644-652

  Hamdi, Moustapha ^a   Van Landuyt, Koenraad ^a   de Frene, Bob ^a   Roche, Nathalie ^a   Blondeel, Phillip ^a   Monstrey, Stan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clinical experience; Intercostal vessels; Pedicled flaps; Perforator flaps

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR INTERCOSTAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; AORTA; ARTICLE; BACK; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; DONOR SITE; DORSAL INTERCOSTAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LATERAL INTERCOSTAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; MELANOMA; NEUROVASCULAR ISLAND FLAP; OPERATION DURATION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; STERNUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RIBS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES; THORAX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646564392     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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