Recipient vessels in free-flap breast reconstruction: A study of the internal mammary and thoracodorsal vessels

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 405-416

  Feng, Lu Jean ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; AXILLARY VEIN; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; DONOR; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORAX; VEINS;

EID: 0031015946     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199702000-00015     Document Type: Article

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