Reliability of handheld Doppler in planning local perforator-based flaps for extremities

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 521-525

  Khan, Umar Daraz ^a   Miller, J G ^b  

^a Belvedere Private Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color duplex; Handheld Doppler; Limb perforators; Perforator based flaps

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORATOR FLAP; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SOFT TISSUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; ARM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 34548798728     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-007-0072-9     Document Type: Article

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