Thermal injuries following TRAM flap breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 335-341

  Alexandrides, Ioannis John ^a   Shestak, Kenneth C ^a,c   Barrett Noone, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; CEFALEXIN; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA (SENSORY DYSFUNCTION); BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CREAM; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REINNERVATION; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN; THERMAL INJURY; THERMOREGULATION; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BURNS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SUNBURN; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0030898411     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199704000-00005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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