Relationship between microvascular arterial anastomotic type and area of free flap survival: Comparison of end-to-end, end-to-side, and retrograde arterial anastomosis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1901-1908

  Miyamoto, Shimpei ^a   Takushima, Akihiko ^a   Okazaki, Mutsumi ^a   Ohura, Norihiko ^a   Minabe, Toshiharu ^a   Harii, Kiyonori ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVASCULARIZATION; SIDE TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ILIAC ARTERY; MAMMARY ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES;

EID: 48049101216     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181715232     Document Type: Article

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