Use of circumflex scapular vessels as a recipient pedicle for autologous breast reconstruction: A report of 40 consecutive cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2049-2053

  Lantieri, Laurent A ^a   Mitrofanoff, Marc ^a   Rimareix, Françoise ^a   Gaston, Erick ^a   Raulo, Yvon ^a   Baruch, Jean P ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; AXILLARY ARTERY; AXILLARY VEIN; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSECTION; DONOR SITE; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SCAPULA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032745527     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199912000-00015     Document Type: Article

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