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Table 1 Electronic database search—Ovid EMBASE and MEDLINE

From: Protocol for a systematic review of venous coupler devices versus hand-sewn anastomosis for microsurgical free flap reconstruction

 

Concept 1

AND

Concept 2

AND

Concept 3

MeSH term

 

 OR

free flap, microsurgical

 

veins

 

surgical anastomosis

Key words

 

 OR

“flap*”

 

“vein”

 

“couple*”

 OR

“free flap*”

 

“venous”

 

“anastomotic coupler”

 OR

“free tissue transfer”

   

“venous coupler”

 OR

    

“coupled device”