Breast reconstruction with superficial inferior epigastric artery flaps: A prospective comparison with TRAM and DIEP flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1077-1083

  Chevray, Pierre M ^a,b  

^a Univ Texas M D Anderson Cancer C ^*

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FASCIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RELIABILITY; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX WALL; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; ESTHETICS; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAMMAPLASTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 14944340684     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000135328.88101.53     Document Type: Article

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