Preoperative imaging for DIEA perforator flaps: A comparative study of computed tomographic angiography and Doppler ultrasound

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-16

  Rozen, Warren M ^a   Phillips, Timothy J ^b   Ashton, Mark W ^b   Stella, Damien L ^b   Gibson, Robert N ^b   Taylor, G Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES;

EID: 38049069168     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000293874.71269.c9     Document Type: Article

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