Perforasomes of the DIEP flap: Vascular anatomy of the lateral versus medial row perforators and clinical implications

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 772-782

  Wong, Corrine ^a   Saint Cyr, Michel ^a   Mojallal, Ali ^a   Schaub, Tim ^a   Bailey, Steven H ^a   Myers, Simon ^a   Brown, Spencer ^a   Rohrich, Rod J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMAPLASTY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77749316160     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181cb63e0     Document Type: Article

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