Preoperative shock wave treatment enhances ischemic tissue survival, blood flow and angiogenesis in a rat skin flap model

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 292-296

  Keil, Holger ^a   Mueller, Wolf ^b   Herold Mende, Christel ^b   Gebhard, Martha Maria ^b   Germann, Günter ^a   Engel, Holger ^b   Reichenberger, Matthias A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; ESWT; Ischemic tissue; Preconditioning; Shock wave therapy; Skin flap survival; Vessel density

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCK WAVE TREATMENT; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SHOCK WAVE; SKIN FLAP; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; TISSUE PERFUSION; TISSUE SURVIVAL; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANIMALS; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVESSELS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE SURVIVAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 79956294680     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: 17439159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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