The retrograde limb of the internal mammary vein: An additional outflow option in DIEP flap breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 717-721

  Agarwal, Jayant P ^a   Kerr Valentic, Mahlon A ^b   Gottlieb, Lawrence J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; INTERNAL MAMMARY VEIN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN; VENOUS CONGESTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORAX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VEINS;

EID: 70349295999     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181b179fc     Document Type: Article

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