Free pectoral skin flap in the rat based on the long thoracic vessels a new flap model for experimental study and microsurgical training

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 209-214

  Miyamoto, Shimpei ^a   Takushima, Akihiko ^a   Okazaki, Mutsumi ^a   Shiraishi, Tomohiro ^a   Minabe, Toshiharu ^b   Harii, Kiyonori ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; MICROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PECTORAL SKIN FLAP; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; EDUCATION; HISTOLOGY; INGUINAL REGION; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; GROIN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES;

EID: 53049086699     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e318157a6ea     Document Type: Article

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