Tissue oximetry monitoring in microsurgical breast reconstruction decreases flap loss and improves rate of flap salvage

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1080-1085

  Lin, Samuel J ^a,b   Nguyen, Minh Doan ^a,b   Chen, Chen ^a,b   Colakoglu, Salih ^a,b   Curtis, Michael S ^a,b   Tobias, Adam M ^a,b   Lee, Bernard T ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASTIC SURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; OXIMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 79952761292     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31820436cb     Document Type: Article

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