Double-pedicle transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap for unilateral breast and chest-wall reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1985, Pages 901-907

  Ishii, Clyde H ^a   Bostwick, John ^a   Raine, Talmage J ^a   Coleman, John J ^a   Hester, T Roderick ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; THERAPY; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; AGED; BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL MESH; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 0022396949     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-198512000-00019     Document Type: Note

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