The deep inferior epigastric artery: Anatomy and applicability as a source of microvascular arterial grafts

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 209-214

  Rockwell, W Bradford ^a   Hurst, Craig A ^a   Morton, David A ^a   Kwok, Alvin ^a   Foreman, K Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BYPASS SURGERY; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRIST;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARTERIES; CADAVER; DISSECTION; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULNAR ARTERY; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34250771154     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000264068.41410.1e     Document Type: Article

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