Venous thrombosis in coupled versus sutured microvascular anastomoses

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 666-669

  Yap, Lok H ^a   Constantinides, Joannis ^a   Butler, Charles E ^b  

^a SELLY OAK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Microsurgery; Postoperative complications; Reconstructive surgical procedures; Surgical flaps; Thrombosis; Vascular patency; Vascular surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOTIC COUPLING DEVICE; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SURGERY; DEVICE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKULL SURGERY; SUTURING METHOD; THROMBOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33751314744     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000229958.57126.21     Document Type: Article

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