Pre-operative CT angiography and three-dimensional image post processing for deep inferior epigastric perforator flap breast reconstructive surgery

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1020, 2012, Pages

  Lam, D L ^a   Mitsumori, Lee M ^a   Neligan, P C ^b   Warren, B H ^a   Shuman, W P ^a   Dubinsky, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULAR PEDICLE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PERFORATOR FLAP; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 84871162839     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/30590223     Document Type: Article

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