Comparative study of different combinations of microvascular anastomoses in a rat model: End-to-end, end-to-side, and flow-through anastomosis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 449-455

  Miyamoto, Shimpei ^a   Okazaki, Mutsumi ^a   Ohura, Norihiko ^a   Shiraishi, Tomohiro ^a   Takushima, Akihiko ^a   Harii, Kiyonori ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; NECROSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SURGICAL FLAPS; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 67749120505     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817d62c5     Document Type: Article

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