Outpatient reduction mammaplasty: A review of 338 consecutive cases

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 162-166

  Buenaventura, Susan ^a   Severinac, Robert ^b   Mullis, William ^a,b   Beasley, Michael ^a,b   Jacobs, William ^a,b   Wood, Daniel ^a  

^a Charlotte Spine Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST HYPERTROPHY; BREAST REDUCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COST SAVINGS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030020003     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199602000-00010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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