Impact of perforator mapping using multidetector-row computed tomographic angiography on free thoracodorsal artery perforator flap transfer

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1079-1088

  Mun, Goo Hyun ^a   Kim, Hyung Joon ^a   Cha, Myung Kyu ^a   Kim, Wan Yuk ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; GRAFT NECROSIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCISION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LEG; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NECK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; THORACODORSAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MAMMARY ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 53149128386     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31818458b3     Document Type: Article

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