Breast reconstruction in previously irradiated patients using tissue expanders and implants: A potentially unfavorable result

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 360-364

  Forman, Douglas L ^a   Chiu, Jennifer ^b   Restifo, Richard J ^c   Ward, Barbara A ^a   Haffty, Bruce ^b   Ariyan, Stephan ^a  

^a Section of Plastic Surgery   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE EXPANSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE EXPANDERS; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 0031920575     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199804000-00007     Document Type: Article

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