Anatomic imaging of gluteal perforator flaps without ionizing radiation: Seeing is believing with magnetic resonance angiography

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-57

  Vasile, Julie V ^a   Newman, Tiffany ^b   Rusch, David G ^d   Greenspun, David T ^e   Allen, Robert J ^a   Prince, Martin ^c   Levine, Joshua L ^a  

^a Center for Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction   (United States)

^b New York Weill Cornell Center   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d Drucker Genuth and Augenstein PC   (United States)

^e GREENWICH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gluteal artery perforator flap; Inferior gluteal artery perforator flap; Magnetic resonance imaging angiography; Preoperative imaging; Superior gluteal artery perforator flap

Indexed keywords

GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BUTTOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INFERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; IONIZING RADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BUTTOCKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 76649118781     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1225535     Document Type: Article

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