Free tissue transfer for lower extremity reconstruction: A study of the role of computed angiography in the planning of free tissue transfer in the posttraumatic setting

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 523-529

  Duymaz, Ahmet ^a   Karabekmez, Furkan E ^a   Vrtiska, Terri J ^a   Mardini, Samir ^a   Moran, Steven L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; LEG RECONSTRUCTION; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT PLANNING; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LEG INJURIES; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIAL ARTERIES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249142722     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181addafa     Document Type: Article

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