Post-operative assessment of perfusion of Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator (DIEP) free flaps via Pulsatility Index (PI) using a portable colour Doppler sonogram device

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 931-936

  Arya, Reza ^a   Griffiths, Louisa ^a   Figus, Andrea ^a   King, David ^a   Ramakrishnan, Venkat ^a   Griffiths, Matthew ^a  

^a BROOMFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour Doppler sonography; DIEP flap; Free flap; Perforator vessels; Pulsatility index; Venous congestion

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PERFORATOR FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERFORATOR FLAP; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSATILE FLOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 84878526502     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: 18780539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2013.03.023     Document Type: Article

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