The impact of preoperative CT angiography on breast reconstruction with abdominal perforator flaps

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 525-530

  Tong, Winnie Mao Yiu ^a   Dixon, Robert ^b   Ekis, Heidi ^b   Halvorson, Eric G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal perforator flaps; breast reconstruction; preoperative CT angiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860742770     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31823b69a4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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