Preoperative planning for DIEP breast reconstruction: early experience of the use of computerised tomography angiography with VoNavix 3D software for perforator navigation

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1464-1469

  Pacifico, M D ^a   See, M S ^a   Cavale, N ^a   Collyer, J ^a   Francis, I ^a   Jones, M E ^a   Hazari, A ^a   Boorman, J G ^a   Smith, R W ^a  

^a QUEEN VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D analysis; Breast reconstruction; CTA; DIEP; Perforator; TRAM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOFTWARE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 72049108416     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2008.04.056     Document Type: Article

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