The "perfusion map" of the unipedicled TRAM flap to reduce postoperative partial necrosis

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-209

  Yamaguchi, Satoru ^a,b   De Lorenzi, Francesca ^a   Petit, Jean Yves ^a   Rietjens, Mario ^a   Garusi, Cristina ^a   Giraldo, Andrea ^a   Rey, Pier Carlo ^a   Urban, Cicero ^a   Martella, Stefano ^a   Bosco, Riccardo ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; MUSCLE FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NECROSIS; TISSUE PERFUSION; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE FLAP; VIDEORECORDER;

ADULT; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PERFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 4644221947     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000116284.51679.ea     Document Type: Article

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