Three-year experience using near infrared spectroscopy tissue oximetry monitoring of free tissue transfers

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 540-545

  Steele, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Free flap monitoring; near infrared spectroscopy tissue oximetry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXIMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXIMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955059071     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31820909f9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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