The implantable venous doppler for perforator flap monitoring: Report of a false-negative signal

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Sisco, Mark ^a   Dumanian, Gregory A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN TONE; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MONITORING; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; VEIN;

ADULT; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VEINS;

EID: 42949113569     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000305398.90484.c8     Document Type: Letter

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