Angiosomes of the foot and ankle and clinical implications for limb salvage: Reconstruction, incisions, and revascularization

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Attinger, Christopher E ^a   Evans, Karen Kim ^b   Bulan, Erwin ^b   Blume, Peter ^b   Cooper, Paul ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHACRYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ANKLE; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL; CADAVER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FOOT; HUMAN; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LIMB SALVAGE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN FLAP; TIBIAL ARTERY; VASCULARIZATION; ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; REVIEW; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANKLE; ARTERIES; CADAVER; FOOT; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIAL ARTERIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33745489319     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000222582.84385.54     Document Type: Article

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