Interindividual variability of the SIEA angiosome: Effects on operative strategies in breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1612-1620

  Holm, Charlotte ^a   Mayr, Martina ^a   Höfter, Eugen ^a   Raab, Nikolaus ^a   Ninkovic, Milomir ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOCYANINE GREEN; COLORING AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FASCIA; FLUORESCENCE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT INDICATION; ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COLORING AGENTS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; LASERS; MAMMAPLASTY; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 58149379526     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31818a9a3f     Document Type: Article

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