Cost analysis of 109 microsurgical reconstructions and flap monitoring with microdialysis

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 521-526

  Setälä, Leena ^a   Koskenvuori, Heini ^a   Gudaviciene, Daiva ^b   Berg, Leena ^a   Mustonen, Paula ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Microdialysis; Microsurgery; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SURGERY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LEG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROSURGERY; PERFUSION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROSURGERY; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 70449441718     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1238218     Document Type: Article

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