Monitoring for Upper-Extremity Free Flaps and Replantations

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1905-1908

  Bakri, Karim ^a   Moran, Steven L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SALVAGE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIMB REPLANTATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE SURVIVAL; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 57249092690     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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