Venous congestive flap salvage with subcutaneous rtPA

Microsurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 370-372

  Tran, Nho V ^a   Bishop, Allen T ^a   Convery, Phyllis A ^a   Yu, Art Y ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALLOPURINOL; ALTEPLASE; CATHFLO; HEPARIN; STREPTOKINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FREE FLAP SURGERY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MICROSURGERY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EDEMA; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33746531092     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20254     Document Type: Article

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