Tram flap anatomy correlated with a 10-year clinical experience with 556 patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1185-1194

  Watterson, Paul A ^b   Bostwick, John ^a   Roderick Hester, T ^b   Trimble Bried, Jean ^b   Ian Taylor, G ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CADAVER; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RISK FACTOR; SCAR; SMOKING; THORAX WALL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGE; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029071055     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199506000-00007     Document Type: Article

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