Abdominal wall CT angiography: A detailed account of a newly established preoperative imaging technique1

Radiology

Volumn 249, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-44

  Phillips, Timothy J ^a   Stella, Damien L ^b   Rozen, Warren M ^b   Ashton, Mark ^b   Taylor, G Ian ^b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FEMORAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SELECTION; PERFORATOR FLAP; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 53749097951     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2483072054     Document Type: Article

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