Postoperative monitoring of free vascularized bone grafts in reconstruction of bone defects

Microsurgery

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 401-407

  Pliefke, Jenny ^a   Rademacher, Grit ^a   Zach, Alexander ^b   Bauwens, Kai ^a   Ekkernkamp, Axel ^a,b   Eisenschenk, Andreas ^c  

^a UNFALLKRANKENHAUS BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c Department of Hand Replantation and Microsurgery ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BONE DEFECT; BONE GRAFT; BONE INJURY; BONE REMODELING; BONE RESECTION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER SURGERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGENITAL BONE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FREE VASCULARIZED BONE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIMB BLOOD FLOW; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FIBULA; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 67649744194     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20662     Document Type: Review

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