Effects of venous supercharging in deep inferior epigastric artery perforator flap

Acta Cirurgica Brasileira

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 474-478

  Groth, Anne Karoline ^a,d   Campos, Antônio Carlos Ligocki ^a   Gonçalves, Carolina Gomes ^a   Da Silva, Ruy Fernando Caetano ^b   Da Silva, Alfredo Benjamim Duarte ^c   Greca, Fernando Hintz ^b   Graf, Ruth ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c Hospital Erasto Gaertner   (Brazil)

^d PUCPR ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Laser Doppler flowmetry; Models, animal; Rats; Surgical flaps; Tissue survival

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORATOR FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; SURVIVAL RATE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 40749154891     PISSN: 01028650     EISSN: 16782674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-86502007000600011     Document Type: Article

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