Effect of venous superdrainage on a four-territory skin flap survival in rats

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2046-2051

  Chang, Hak ^a   Minn, Kyung Won ^b   Imanishi, Nobuaki ^b   Minabe, Toshiharu ^b   Nakajima, Hideo ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAIN; GRAFT SURVIVAL; ILIAC ARTERY; ILIAC VEIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN FLAP; TISSUE NECROSIS; VEIN DILATATION; VEIN SURGERY; VENOUS CIRCULATION; ANIMAL; ARTERY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; VEINS;

EID: 34249824920     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000260590.44798.9c     Document Type: Article

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