Alternative venous outflow vessels in microvascular breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 448-455

  Mehrara, Babak J ^a   Santoro, Timothy ^b   Smith, Andrew ^b   Arcilla, Eric A ^b   Watson, James P ^b   Shaw, William W ^b   Da Lio, Andrew L ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MICROVASCULATURE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VENOUS BLOOD;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0042130440     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000070487.94201.30     Document Type: Article

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