Eight-year experience of the Cook-Swartz Doppler in free-flap operations: Microsurgical and reexploration results with regard to a wide spectrum of surgeries

Microsurgery

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Schmulder, Ariel ^a   Gur, Eyal ^b   Zaretski, Arik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650983191     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20816     Document Type: Article

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