Upper cervicothoracic sympathetic block increases blood supply of unipedicled TRAM flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 247-251

  Tsoutsos, Dimosthenis ^a   Kakagia, Despoina ^a,b,c   Gravvanis, Andreas ^a   Iconomou, Thomais ^a   Tsagkarakis, Myron ^a   Zogogiannis, Ioannis ^a   Dimitriou, Vassilios ^a  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c EBOPRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autologous breast reconstruction; Smoking; Sympathetic block; TRAM flap

Indexed keywords

CISATRACURIUM; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CERVICAL GANGLION; CERVICOTHORACIC SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT NECROSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SMOKING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; THERAPY DELAY; THERMOGRAPHY; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; VASCULARIZATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ECONOMICS; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PLASTIC SURGERY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; FAT NECROSIS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 53149105158     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31815acb82     Document Type: Article

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