The use of sentinel skin islands for monitoring buried and semi-buried micro-vascular flaps. Part I: Summary and brief description of monitoring methods.
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DOI: 10.5507/bp.2021.016
Abstract: Micro-vascular flaps have been used for the repair of challenging defects for over 45 years. The risk of failure is reported to be around 5-10% which despite medical and technical advances in recent years remains… read more here.
Keywords: micro vascular; brief description; monitoring; vascular flaps ... See more keywords
The use of sentinel skin islands for monitoring buried and semi-buried micro-vascular flaps. Part II: Clinical application.
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2021 at "Biomedical papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacky, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia"
DOI: 10.5507/bp.2021.017
Abstract: Despite the high success rate of micro-vascular flaps, anastomosis compromise occurs in 5-10% and that can lead to flap failure. Reliable monitoring of the flap is therefore of similar importance to that of the precise… read more here.
Keywords: part; monitoring buried; vascular flaps; skin ... See more keywords