The internal mammary artery perforator flap: An anatomical study and a case report

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 156-161

  Vesely, Martin J J ^a   Murray, Dylan J ^a   Novak, Christine B ^a   Gullane, Patrick J ^a   Neligan, Peter C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b Division of Plastic Surgery   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anatomic study; Head and neck reconstruction; Internal mammary artery; Neck defects; Pedicled flaps; Perforators flaps; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DELTOPECTORAL FLAP; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; NECK; NECK CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; PAROTIDECTOMY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33846409840     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000232859.33035.d5     Document Type: Article

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