An accelerated approach to tissue expansion for breast reconstruction: Experience with intraoperative and rapid postoperative expansion in 370 reconstructions

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1871-1875

  Pusic, Andrea L ^b   Cordeiro, Peter G ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CELLULITIS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TISSUE EXPANSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BREAST AUGMENTATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 0037739689     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000056871.83116.19     Document Type: Article

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