Extended TRAM flap: Feasibility study on fresh human cadavers

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 256-262

  Zenn, Michael R ^a   Heitmann, Christoph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST SURGERY; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RIB RESECTION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CADAVER; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0037336482     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000046786.54698.02     Document Type: Article

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