Reliability of anatomical landmarks for skin perforators of the thoracodorsal artery perforator flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1376-1386

  Lin, Cheng Ta ^b   Huang, Jer Shyung ^b   Yang, Kuo Chung ^b   Hsu, Kuei Chang ^b   Chen, Jin Shyr ^b   Chen, Lee Wei ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DEVICE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NECROSIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACODORSAL ARTERY; THORACODORSAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; FOOT INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33750264394     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000239525.44657.81     Document Type: Article

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