Arterial and venous anatomies of the deep inferior epigastric perforator and superficial inferior epigastric artery flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1909-1919

  Schaverien, Mark ^a   Saint Cyr, Michel ^a   Arbique, Gary ^a   Brown, Spencer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CADAVER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROVASCULATURE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; ANGIOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CADAVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; VEINS;

EID: 48049089873     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817151f8     Document Type: Article

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