Monitoring of microcirculation in free transferred musculocutaneous latissimus dorsi flaps by confocal laser scanning microscopy - a promising non-invasive methodical approach

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-117

  Altintas, M A ^a   Altintas, A A ^b   Guggenheim, M ^c   Knobloch, K ^a   Niederbichler, A D ^a   Vogt, P M ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Burn Centre   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Flap surgery; Flap surveillance; Histomorphology; Microcirculation; Non invasive monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENOUS CONGESTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 72649107347     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2008.08.034     Document Type: Article

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