Breast Reconstruction with Gluteal Artery Perforator (GAP) Flaps: A Critical Analysis of 142 Cases

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 118-125

  Guerra, Aldo Benjamin ^a,b   Metzinger, Stephen Eric ^a   Bidros, Rafi Sirop ^a   Gill, Paul Singh ^a   Dupin, Charles Louis ^a   Allen, Robert Johnson ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; HUMAN; INFERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN GRAFT;

ADULT; BUTTOCKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0842312383     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000095437.43805.d1     Document Type: Article

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