The surgically delayed unipedicled TRAM flap for breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 238-245

  Hudson, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029935321     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199603000-00002     Document Type: Article

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