Comparison of time-intensity-curve-(TIC-) analysis of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI for postoperative control of microcirculation in free flaps - First results and critical comments

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 48, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 187-198

  Fellner, C ^a   Prantl, L ^a   Rennert, J ^a   Stroszczynski, C ^a   Jung, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CEUS; DCE; free flaps; microcirculation; MRI; plastic surgery; TIC analysis

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT; SONOVUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FASCIOCUTANEOUS PARASCAPULAR SKIN FLAP; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRACILIS FLAP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN FLAP; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; TIME INTENSITY CURVE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052630283     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: 18758622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2011-1399     Document Type: Article

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