The absent inferior epigastric artery: A unique anomaly and implications for deep inferior epigastric artery perforator flaps

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 289-293

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Computed tomographic angiography; Deep inferior epigastric artery; DIEA perforator flap; DIEP flap

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PERFORATOR FLAP; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR PEDICLE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANGIOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 67649828014     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1202553     Document Type: Article

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