Symmetrical breast reconstruction: Is there a role for three-dimensional digital photography?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1582-1590

  Nahabedian, Maurice Y ^a   Galdino, Gregory ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CAMERA; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0642374084     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000085818.54980.C4     Document Type: Article

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