Searching for the right timing of surgical delay: angiogenesis, vascular endothelial growth factor and perfusion changes in a skin-flap model

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1534-1542

  Holzbach, Thomas ^a   Neshkova, Iva ^a   Vlaskou, Dialekti ^b   Konerding, Moritz A ^c   Gansbacher, Bernd ^b   Biemer, Edgar ^a   Giunta, Riccardo E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Delay Phenomenon; Flap Survival; Laser Fluoroscopy; Skin Flap; Surgical Delay; Vasodilatation; VEGF

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; INDOCYANINE GREEN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUOROSCOPY; GRAFT NECROSIS; GRAFT PERFUSION; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 72049093236     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2008.05.036     Document Type: Article

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