Investigation of TRAM flap oxygenation and perfusion by near-infrared reflection spectroscopy and color-coded duplex sonography

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 141-152

  Scheufler, Oliver ^a   Exner, Klaus ^b   Andresen, Reimer ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHEMISTRY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKIN; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 4444323360     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000095940.96294.A5     Document Type: Article

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