Effects of reduction mammaplasty on pulmonary function and symptoms of macromastia

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 688-694

  Sood, Rajiv ^a,b   Mount, Delora L ^a   Coleman III, John J ^a   Ranieri, Jaime ^a   Sauter, Sharon ^a   Mathur, Praveen ^a   Thurston, Bradley ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b 235 Emerson Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BREAST HYPERTROPHY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST REDUCTION; BREAST SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; NECK PAIN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER PAIN; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOM; WHEEZING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0037314622     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000041395.02699.B7     Document Type: Article

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