Free perforator crossover TRAM flap for breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 126-131

  Lam, Thomas C ^a,b   Sellars, Graham D ^a  

^a Department of Plastic Surgery ^*  (Australia)

^b NSW Breast Cancer Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MICROSURGERY; MUSCLE PERFUSION; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; VASCULARIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0037314835     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000032307.61429.9E     Document Type: Article

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