TY - JOUR
T1 - Flap perfusion mapping
T2 - TRAM flap after abdominal suction-assisted lipectomy
AU - May, James W.
AU - Silverman, Ronald P.
AU - Kaufman, John A.
PY - 1999/12
Y1 - 1999/12
N2 - This technique or its modification (using other dyes) may play a beneficial role in other clinical scenarios where the reconstructive plastic surgeon preoperatively needs to know the integrity of vessels that are too small to image using standard angiographic techniques. In addition, flap perfusion mapping can demonstrate the pattern of skin that is physiologically perfused by the intact vessels. Knowledge of the perfusion characteristics of the tissues to be transferred before surgery may, at the least, alter the design of the tissues to be transferred and, in the extreme case, could affect the nature of the operative choice altogether.
AB - This technique or its modification (using other dyes) may play a beneficial role in other clinical scenarios where the reconstructive plastic surgeon preoperatively needs to know the integrity of vessels that are too small to image using standard angiographic techniques. In addition, flap perfusion mapping can demonstrate the pattern of skin that is physiologically perfused by the intact vessels. Knowledge of the perfusion characteristics of the tissues to be transferred before surgery may, at the least, alter the design of the tissues to be transferred and, in the extreme case, could affect the nature of the operative choice altogether.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 11149798
AN - SCOPUS:0032739479
SN - 0032-1052
VL - 104
SP - 2278
EP - 2281
JO - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
JF - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
IS - 7
ER -