A comparison of morbidity from bilateral, unipedicled and unilateral, unipedicled tram flap breast reconstructions

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1819-1827

  Paige, Keith T ^a   Bostwick III, John ^a,b   Bried, Jean Trimble ^a   Jones, Glyn ^a  

^a EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; DONOR SITE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE FLAP; OBESITY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SMOKING;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0031799472     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199806000-00007     Document Type: Article

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