The coincidence of TRAM flaps and prostheses in the setting of breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 478-486

  Spear, Scott L ^a,b   Wolfe, Andrew J ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036315860     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200208000-00017     Document Type: Article

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