The circummuscular or paramuscular variants of deep inferior epigastric perforators detected with CTA: Should these be called variants at all?

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-120

  Rozen, Warren Matthew ^a   Houseman, Nicholas D ^a   Ashton, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BREAST IMPLANTATION; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 58149463038     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-008-9252-5     Document Type: Letter

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