Development of the inframammary fold and ptosis in breast reconstruction with textured tissue expanders

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 219-222

  Fan, Jincai ^a   Raposio, Edoardo ^b   Wang, Jiping ^b   Nordström, Rolf E A ^b  

^a PLASTIC SURGERY HOSPITAL   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Mastectomy; Tissue expander

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFRAMAMMARY FOLD; MASTECTOMY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEXTURED TISSUE EXPANDER; TISSUE EXPANSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BREAST; HISTOLOGY; IMPLANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

BREAST; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE EXPANDERS; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 0036559731     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-002-1477-0     Document Type: Article

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