Fate of the tram flap after abdominoplasty in a rat model

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1828-1835

  Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a,b   Rice, David C ^a  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINOPLASTY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FASCIA; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANIMALS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MAMMAPLASTY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0031778517     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199806000-00008     Document Type: Article

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