TRAM flap delay: Two techniques and an unresolved question [9]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2478-2479

  Jensen, J Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

EID: 0038319034     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000063119.39463.A9     Document Type: Letter

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