Refinements in free flap breast reconstruction: the free bilateral deep inferior epigastric perforator flap anastomosed to the internal mammary artery

British Journal of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 495-501

  Blondeel, Phillip N ^a   Boeckx, Willy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREE SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LAPAROTOMY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BREAST; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0028146915     PISSN: 00071226     EISSN: 14653087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0007-1226(94)90033-7     Document Type: Article

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