Circummuscular variant of the deep inferior epigastric perforator in breast reconstruction: Importance of preoperative multidetector computed tomographic angiography

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 817-819

  Heo, Chanyeong ^a   Yoo, Jihan ^a   Minn, Kyungwon ^a   Kim, Sungwon ^a  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Deep inferior epigastric perforator; Multidetector CT angiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 51649126678     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-008-9219-6     Document Type: Article

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