One versus two venous anastomoses in microvascular free flap surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1548-1557

  Hanasono, Matthew M ^a   Kocak, Ergun ^b   Ogunleye, Olubunmi ^b   Hartley, Craig J ^b   Miller, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; PLASTIC SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VEINS;

EID: 78650111592     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181ef8c9f     Document Type: Article

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