Venous coupler for free-flap anastomosis: Outcomes of 1,000 cases

Anticancer Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1293-1294

  Rozen, Warren M ^a   Whitaker, Iain S ^b   Acosta, Rafael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Uppsala Clinic Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Arterial; Breast reconstruction; Deep inferior epigastric artery; Perforator flap; Venous

Indexed keywords

SUTURE MATERIAL;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SURGERY; CLIP; DATA ANALYSIS; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPLER; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SUTURE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN SUTURE; VENOUS COUPLER;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; EXTREMITIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SUTURES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77953794747     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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