Conventional tram flap versus free microsurgical tram flap for immediate breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 828-841

  Grotting, James C ^a   Urist, Marshall M ^a   Maddox, William A ^a   Vasconez, Luis O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGERY;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0024581192     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-198905000-00009     Document Type: Article

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