Late results of breast reconstruction with free tram flaps: A prospective multicentric study

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1195-1204

  Banic, Andrej ^a   Boeckx, W ^b,c   Greulich, M ^b,c   Guelickx, P ^b,c   Marchi, A ^b,c   Rigotti, G ^b,c   Tschopp, H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Radiology and Cardiology   (Germany)

^c Istituti Ospedalieri di Verona ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGE; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029068406     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199506000-00008     Document Type: Article

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