Selective percutaneous desiccation of the perforators with radiofrequency for strategic transfer of angiosomes in a sequential four-territory cutaneous island flap model

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1695-1706

  Demirtas, Yener ^a,b   Ayhan, Suhan ^a   Findikcioglu, Kemal ^a   Yavuzer, Reha ^a   Atabay, Kenan ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIOFREQUENCY; SKIN FLAP; SKIN INCISION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; DESICCATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMOCYTES; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECROSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PILOT PROJECTS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247384054     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000258839.78758.35     Document Type: Article

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