Raising perforator flaps for breast reconstruction: The intramuscular anatomy of the deep inferior epigastric artery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1443-1449

  Rozen, Warren M ^a   Ashton, Mark W ^a   Pan, Wei R ^a   Taylor, G Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CADAVER; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DISSECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PERFORATOR FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 38049088548     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000282030.77894.bb     Document Type: Article

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