Preoperative imaging techniques for perforator selection in abdomen-based microsurgical breast reconstruction

Clinics in Plastic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 581-591

  Mathes, David W ^a   Neligan, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Microsurgery; Perforator based flap; Postoperative imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ACCURACY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MICROSURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ABDOMINAL WALL; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 77956332024     PISSN: 00941298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2010.06.011     Document Type: Review

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