Planning and optimising DIEP flaps with virtual surgery: the Navarra experience

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 289-297

  Rozen, Warren Matthew ^a   Garcia Tutor, Emilio ^b   Alonso Burgos, Alberto ^b   Acosta, Rafael ^c   Stillaert, Filip ^d   Zubieta, Jose Luis ^b   Hamdi, Mustapha ^d   Whitaker, Iain S ^e   Ashton, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c Uppsala Clinic Hospital   (Sweden)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Computed tomography angiography; CT Scan; DIEA perforator flap; Magnetic resonance angiography; Perforator; Preoperative Imaging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC VEIN; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC VEIN; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VEIN; VIRTUAL SURGERY;

BREAST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 74849110661     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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