Nipple-sparing total mastectomy of large breasts: The role of tissue expansion

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1551-1552

  Verheyden, Charles N ^a,b,c  

^a Scott and White Mem Hosp and Clin ^*  (United States)

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NIPPLE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; TISSUE EXPANSION;

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, SIMPLE; MIDDLE AGED; NIPPLES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; REOPERATION; SILICONES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE EXPANDERS; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 14944343464     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000138238.84086.60     Document Type: Article

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