Assessing Perforator Architecture

Clinics in Plastic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-202

  Saint Cyr, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DIEP flap; Flap design; Perforasome; Perforator flaps; TRAM flap

Indexed keywords

BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; INTERCOSTAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; LATERAL ARM FLAP; LUMBAR ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACODORSAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE FLAP; TISSUE PERFUSION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79956348669     PISSN: 00941298     EISSN: 15580504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2011.03.015     Document Type: Review

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