Staged breast reconstruction with saline-filled implants in the irradiated breast: Recent trends and therapeutic implications

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 930-942

  Spear, Scott L ^a   Onyewu, Chukwuemeka ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST PROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034015956     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200003000-00016     Document Type: Article

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