Postoperative monitoring of lower limb free flaps with the Cook-Swartz implantable doppler probe: A clinical trial

Microsurgery

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 354-360

  Rozen, Warren M ^a   Enajat, Morteza ^b   Whitaker, Iain S ^c   Lindkvist, Ulrica ^b   Audolfsson, Thorir ^b   Acosta, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Uppsala Clinic Hospital   (Sweden)

^c MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; INFANT; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956790573     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20720     Document Type: Article

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