Use of internal mammary vessel perforator as a recipient vessel for free TRAM breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 132-137

  Park, Myong Chul ^a   Lee, Jung Hoon ^a   Chung, Jaiho ^a   Lee, Seung Hun ^a  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0037316783     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000037272.55380.94     Document Type: Article

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