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Intraoperative evaluation of small-calibre arterial reconstructions
Y Sugawara1, T Ikegami, T Namba
1Second Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan.
Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
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.