Post-operative monitoring of tissue transfers: Advantages using contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and contrast enhanced MRI (ceMRI) with dynamic perfusion analysis?

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 48, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 105-117

  Lamby, P ^a   Prantl, P ^a   Fellner, C ^a   Geis, S ^a   Jung, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ceMRI; CEUS; contrast enhanced ultrasound; GD DTPA; microcirculation; MRI; Plastic surgery; Sonovue; tissue flaps

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION TIME; MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITIVE ENHANCEMENT INTEGRAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THICKNESS; TISSUE FLAP; TISSUE NECROSIS; TISSUE PERFUSION; TRANSDUCER; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 80052621196     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: 18758622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2011-1405     Document Type: Article

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