Attributes and shortcomings of acoustic Doppler sonography in identifying perforators for flaps from the lower extremity.
Publication/Presentation Date
7-1-2009
Abstract
The preoperative identification of perforators can facilitate the appropriate design of perforator flaps from the lower extremity. Although computed tomographic arteriography can now be considered the gold standard in this regard, this technology is not universally available or inexpensive, with a nonnegligible risk from radiation exposure. An old standby, the ubiquitous acoustic Doppler sonography, still has a role as an alternative, despite perhaps its too high sensitivity and low specificity. Regardless of the modality employed, the efficacious harvest of a perforator flap will still require constant vigilance during its dissection due to anatomic anomalies of the course of these perforators, which is the expected norm.
Volume
25
Issue
6
First Page
377
Last Page
381
ISSN
0743-684X
Published In/Presented At
Hallock G. G. (2009). Attributes and shortcomings of acoustic Doppler sonography in identifying perforators for flaps from the lower extremity. Journal of reconstructive microsurgery, 25(6), 377–381. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0029-1220860
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
19391090
Department(s)
Department of Surgery
Document Type
Article