Use of a Three-Dimensional Virtual Reality Model for Preoperative Imaging in DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction1

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 140-147

  Gacto Sánchez, Purificación ^a   Sicilia Castro, Domingo ^a   Gómez Cía, Tomás ^a   Lagares, Araceli ^a   Collell, Teresa ^a   Suárez, Cristina ^a   Parra, Carlos ^a   Infante Cossío, Pedro ^a   De La Higuera, Jose María ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

computer assisted surgery; microsurgery; reconstructive surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER PROGRAM; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANGIOGRAPHY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMAPLASTY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953289096     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.01.025     Document Type: Article

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