Relationship between venous congestion and intraflap venous anatomy in DIEP flaps using contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 385-392

  Schaverien, Mark V ^a   Ludman, Catherine N ^a   Neil Dwyer, Jason ^a   Perks, A Graeme B ^a   Raurell, Anna ^a   Rasheed, Tuabin ^a   McCulley, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955397918     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181de2313     Document Type: Article

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