Avoiding denervation of rectus abdominis in DIEP flap harvest II: An intraoperative assessment of the nerves to rectus

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1321-1325

  Rozen, Warren M ^a   Ashton, Mark W ^a   Kiil, Birgitte J ^a   Grinsell, Damien ^a   Seneviratne, Sugitha ^a   Corlett, Russell J ^a   Taylor, G Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DISSECTION; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RISK; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; UMBILICUS; VERTICAL RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 58149144607     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181881e18     Document Type: Article

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