## Abstract The use of laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) was tested in 108 consecutive patients, who underwent free tissue transfer at our institution between December, 1988, and June, 1990. Sixteen patients (14.8%) suffered vascular complications, which could be detected in all cases earlier by LDF th
Intraoral free flap monitoring with a laser doppler flowmeter
β Scribed by Kunihide Yoshino; Satoshi Nara; Mitsuo Endo; Nobuyuki Kamata
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0738-1085
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