Implantable Doppler flow system: Experience with 24 microvascular free-flap operations

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 714-718

  Pryor, Shepherd G ^a   Moore, Eric J ^a   Kasperbauer, Jan L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MONITORING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33750341990     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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