Intraoperative evaluation of small-calibre arterial reconstructions.
A new hammerhead-shaped, small probe for intraoperative duplex ultrasound was devised to evaluate small-calibre arterial reconstructions. This probe was used in two patients; one with terminal liver cirrhosis who had a left hepatic lobe that had been transplanted from her mother, and a second patient with limb-threatening ischaemia who had undergone arterial reconstructions. The technique was diagnostically useful and contributed to successful clinical outcomes.
Sugawara
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Y
Second Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan.
Ikegami
T
T
Namba
T
T
Kimura
H
H
Inoue
K
K
Kubota
K
K
Harihara
Y
Y
Miyata
T
T
Sato
O
O
Takayama
T
T
Makuuchi
M
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D005260:Female; D006499:Hepatic Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D007511:Ischemia / Q000601:surgery*; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D011150:Popliteal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D018616:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*