The DIEA branching pattern and its relationship to perforators: The importance of preoperative computed tomographic angiography for DIEA perforator flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 367-373

  Rozen, Warren M ^a   Palmer, Kate P ^a   Suami, Hiroo ^a   Pan, Wei R ^a   Ashton, Mark W ^a   Corlett, Russell J ^a   Taylor, G Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CADAVER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ABDOMINAL WALL; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; BREAST; CADAVER; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40549145023     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000298313.28983.f4     Document Type: Article

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