Late free-flap salvage with catheter-directed thrombolysis

Microsurgery

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 217-222

  Trussler, Andrew P ^a   Watson, James P ^a   Crisera, Christopher A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SALVAGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MOUTH CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBECTOMY; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BREAST; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; REOPERATION; SALVAGE THERAPY; STREPTOKINASE; SURGICAL FLAPS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 44449091580     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20480     Document Type: Article

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