The future in perforator flap imaging: A new technique to substantially reduce radiation dose with computed tomographic angiography

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Rozen, Warren M ^a   Chubb, Daniel ^a   Crossett, Marcus ^b   Ashton, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955407562     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181de25f9     Document Type: Note

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