Macro- and microcirculatory assessment of cold sensitivity after traumatic finger amputation and microsurgical replantation

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 355-360

  Klein Weigel, Peter ^a   Pavelka, Michaela ^b   Dabernig, Jörg ^c   Rein, Patrik ^b   Kronenberg, Florian ^d   Fraedrich, Gustav ^b   Piza Katzer, Hildegunde ^c,e  

^a German Red Cross Hospital   (Germany)

^b University of Orthopedic Surgery   (Austria)

^c and Aesthetic Surgery   (Austria)

^d Inst of Med Biol and Hum Genet   (Austria)

^e INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cold sensitivity; Finger amputation; Finger replantation; Microcirculation; Raynaud's phenomenon; Thermoregulation; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD INTOLERANCE; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER AMPUTATION; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; FINGER NAIL; FINGER REPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MICROVASCULATURE; OSCILLOMETRY; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; THERMOREGULATION; VASOSPASM;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLD; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RAYNAUD DISEASE; REPLANTATION; SENSATION DISORDERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 34250688354     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-007-0287-x     Document Type: Article

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