Safety of immediate transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous breast reconstruction for patients with locally advanced disease

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 196-200

  Foster, Robert D ^a,b   Hansen, Scott L ^a,b   Esserman, Laura J ^b   Hwang, E Shelley ^b   Ewing, Cheryl ^b   Lane, Karen ^b   Anthony, James P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; FAT NECROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SAFETY; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 13644270495     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.2.196     Document Type: Article

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