Techniques of monitoring buried fasciocutaneous free flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 525-532

  Ferguson, Robert E H ^a   Yu, Peirong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; GRAFT FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; SKIN SURFACE; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE FLAP; TRACHEA RECONSTRUCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW; CERVICOPLASTY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOREARM; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; PHARYNX; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN; STANDARD; THIGH; TRACHEA; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CERVICOPLASTY; ESOPHAGUS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; TRACHEA;

EID: 61449128482     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318196b9a3     Document Type: Article

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