Immediate breast reconstruction with implants and adjuvant chemotherapy: A good option?

Acta Chirurgica Belgica

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 98-101

  Vandeweyer, E ^a,b   Deraemaecker, R ^a   Nogaret, J M ^a   Hertens, D ^a  

^a JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breast; Cancer; Chemotherapy; Complication; Implants; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038382901     PISSN: 00015458     EISSN: 25770160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015458.2003.11679374     Document Type: Article

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