9912-2278 May
May JW Jr, Silverman RP, Kaufman JA.
Flap perfusion mapping: TRAM flap after abdominal suction-assisted lipectomy.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1999 Dec;104(7):2278-81. PMID: 11149798
Division of Plastic Surgery, the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114,
USA.
This technique or its modification (using other dyes) may play a beneficial role
in other clinical scenarios where the reconstructive plastic surgeon
preoperatively needs to know the integrity of vessels that are too small to
image using standard angiographic techniques. In addition, flap perfusion
mapping can demonstrate the pattern of skin that is physiologically perfused by
the intact vessels. Knowledge of the perfusion characteristics of the tissues to
be transferred before surgery may, at the least, alter the design of the tissues
to be transferred and, in the extreme case, could affect the nature of the
operative choice altogether.
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