No change of palmar microcirculation at rest 2 years after radial artery harvesting

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 920-926

  Knobloch, Karsten ^a   Tomaszek, Sandra ^a   Spies, Marcus ^a   Lichtenberg, Artur ^b   Busch, Kay H ^a   Vogt, Peter M ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hand surgery; Infrared spectroscopy; Microcirculation; Radial artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAPILLARY FLOW; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; OXYGENATION; PALMAR DERMATOGLYPHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; REST; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE PERFUSION;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY MASS INDEX; CAPILLARIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; RADIAL ARTERY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649404683     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.11.053     Document Type: Article

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