Clinical results of TRAM flap delay by selective embolization of the deep inferior epigastric arteries

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1320-1329

  Scheufler, Oliver ^a,b   Andresen, Reimer ^a   Kirsch, Antje ^a   Banzer, Dietrich ^a   Vaubel, Ekkehard ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0034068536     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200004040-00010     Document Type: Article

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