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- Title
PREOPERATIVE ULTRASOUND ASSESSEMENT OF FACIAL VESSELS.
- Authors
State, D.; Stroică, Laura; Cristea, B. M.; Ispas, Al. T.; Lupu, G.; Arsene, E. Tarta; Marinescu, T.; Munteanu, O.; Diaconescu, B. I.
- Abstract
Aim: Traditional methods used in preoperative evaluation of facial vessels such as manual palpation or angiography have obvious limitations: they can not appreciate any vessel diameter or flow direction. Now, ultrasonography is widely used for the same purpose, replacing the old methods. Material and Methods: In this study, we performed measurements of the diameters of the facial veins and arteries by ultrasound method. The measurements were made at three different levels. The study group included 35 healthy patients. Results: At the inferior margin of the mandibular body, the mean value for the facial artery diameter is 2.5 mm, 1.776 mm in women and 3.416 mm in men and for the facial vein 3.307 mm, 4.38 mm and 2.502 respectively. Conclusions: There are many advantages of preoperative ultrasound exam of the recipient and donor facial vessels before a facial transplant: it is noninvasive, nontraumatic, easy and reproducible. Doppler examination gives us in the field of facial transplantation, an excellent method to evaluate the possibility of creating flaps based on facial vessels.
- Subjects
FACIAL transplantation; ULTRASONIC imaging; MANDIBULAR joint; ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Romanian Journal of Functional & Clinical, Macro & Microscopical Anatomy & of Anthropology / Revista Româna de Anatomie Functionala si Clinica, Macro si Microscopica si de Antropologie, 2014, Vol 13, Issue 3, p391
- ISSN
1583-4026
- Publication type
Article