CT-guided deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap localization - Better for the patient, the surgeon, and the hospital

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 131-138

  Malhotra, A ^a   Chhaya, N ^a   Nsiah Sarbeng, P ^a   Mosahebi, A ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PERFORATOR FLAP; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84872130654     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2012.06.105     Document Type: Article

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