Choice of recipient vessels in delayed TRAM flap breast reconstruction after radiotherapy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 105-113

  Temple, Claire L F ^a,b   Strom, Eric A ^a,b   Youssef, Adel ^a,b   Langstein, Howard N ^a,b  

^a Univ Texas M D Anderson Cancer C ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARM EDEMA; ARM LYMPHEDEMA; BLOOD VESSEL; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CHI SQUARE TEST; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DISSECTION; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FLAP ISCHEMIA TIME; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTERNAL MAMMARY VEIN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISCHEMIA; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PARTIAL GRAFT FAILURE; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; RECIPIENT; RECIPIENT BLOOD VESSEL UNUSABILITY RATE; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SMOKING; STUDENT T TEST; THORACODORSAL BLOOD VESSEL; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CICATRIX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 13244271946     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000146037.19482.77     Document Type: Review

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