Thoracodorsal vessels as recipient vessels for the free TRAM flap in delayed breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1649-1655

  Serletti, Joseph M ^a   Moran, Steven L ^b   Orlando, Greg S ^b   Fox, Ida ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSECTION; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MAMMARY ARTERY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OPERATION DURATION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES; VEINS;

EID: 0032732890     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199911000-00006     Document Type: Article

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