Free versus the pedicled TRAM flap: A cost comparison and outcome analysis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1418-1424

  Serletti, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FREE SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 0030723385     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199711000-00006     Document Type: Article

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