Results of monitoring fasciocutaneous, myocutaneous, osteocutaneous and perforator flaps: 4-year experience with 166 cases

International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-28

  Holzle F ^a   Rau, A ^a   Loeffelbein, D J ^a   Mucke T ^a   Kesting, M R ^a   Wolff, K D ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

free flap monitoring; microsurgery; perforator flaps; plastic reconstructive surgery; tissue oxygenation; tissue perfusion

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CHILD; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FIBULA GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PERFUSION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OSTEOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PERFORATOR FLAP; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBECTOMY; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENOUS CONGESTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; FASCIA; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74149093430     PISSN: 09015027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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