An ipsilateral superdrainaged transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap for breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 465-472

  Yanaga, Hiroko ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASTECTOMY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE NECROSIS; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0032965021     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199902000-00015     Document Type: Article

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