Anterolateral thigh harvesting for head and neck reconstruction without Doppler: Risky or not?

Anterolateral thigh harvesting for head and neck reconstruction without Doppler: Risky or not?

Background: Anterolateral thigh flap (ALT) is used as a workhorse flap for head and neck reconstruction. The most used method to map the perforators nowadays is hand-held Doppler although several more sophisticated techniques have been described. This paper is to investigate whether harvesting the A...

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Main Authors: Georgia-Alexandra Spyropoulou, Konstantinos Vahtsevanos, Konstantinos Antoniades, Eleni Karagergou, Sofia Papadopoulou, Efterpi Demiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-06-01
Series:Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases
Subjects:
Anterolateral thigh flap
Perforators mapping
Head and neck reconstruction
Computed tomography angiography
Magnetic resonance angiography
Thermal imaging
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214541923000135

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