Staged TRAM breast reconstruction: Combining the advantages of tissue expansion with surgical delay

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 202-205

  Hudson, Don A ^a   Van Zyl, Jacobus E ^b   Duminy, Frans J ^b   Silfen, Ram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Tissue expansion; TRAM breast reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN COLOR; SKIN SENSATION; SKIN TRANSPOSITION FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE EXPANSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 0033923885     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002660010033     Document Type: Article

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