Vascular supply of the distally based superficial sural artery flap: Surgical safe zones based on component analysis using three-dimensional computed tomographic angiography

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1240-1252

  Mojallal, Ali ^a   Wong, Corrine ^b   Shipkov, Christo ^b   Bailey, Steven ^b   Rohrich, Rod J ^b   Saint Cyr, Michel ^b   Brown, Spencer A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURAL NERVE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIES; CADAVER; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEG; MALE; MICROSURGERY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 78049292203     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181ead0e9     Document Type: Article

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