Early Venous Occlusion Detection in a Free Flap Using Real-time Laser Doppler Imaging

Summary: Early detection of venous occlusion in free flaps is particularly difficult to identify, and its duration is known to be directly proportional to flap mortality. Here, we report a case of deep inferior epigastric perforator based breast reconstruction in which the intraoperative use of a pe...

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Main Authors: Héba Alkhashnam, MD, Benjamin Sarfati, MD, Tyler Thacher, PhD, Frédéric Kolb, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2013-04-01
Series:Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/Fulltext/2013/04000/Article.8.aspx

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