Three-dimensional analysis of perforators of the posterior leg

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1729-1738

  Tang, Maolin ^a,b,c   Mao, Yihua ^a,b,c   Almutairi, Khalid ^a,b,c   Morris, Steven F ^a,b,c  

^a Wenzhou University town ^*

^b WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATIN; LEAD OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISSECTION; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEG; LEG ANGIOGRAPHY; LEG ARTERY; LEG BLOOD VESSEL; MALE; PARAMETER; PERFORATOR FLAP; PERONEUS ARTERY; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR LEG; POSTERIOR TIBIAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN FLAP; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; TIBIAL ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POPLITEAL ARTERY; SKIN; SOFTWARE; TIBIAL ARTERIES;

EID: 67649404895     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181a3f376     Document Type: Article

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