Portable Color-Flow Ultrasound Facilitates Precision Flap Planning and Perforator Selection in Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

Abstract

Our experience with PCFU has rapidly improved, allowing individualized perforator flap selection and design based on each patient's unique perforator anatomy, reconstructive requirements, and donor site characteristics. In our practice, PCFU has supplemented CTA and in many cases has supplanted CTA as the primary imaging modality of choice in the planning of perforator flap reconstruction.