Computer planning for breast reconstruction by tissue expansion

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1931-1933

  Raposio, Edoardo ^a,b   Santi, Pierluigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE EXPANSION;

BREAST IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 0031774518     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199806000-00024     Document Type: Article

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