Use of abdominal quilting sutures for seroma prevention in TRAM flap reconstruction: A prospective, controlled trial

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-364

  McCarthy, Colleen ^a,b   Lennox, Peter ^a   Germann, Eva ^a   Clugston, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Prevention; Seroma; Sutures; TRAM flap

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAIN; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SEROMA; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEROMA; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURES;

EID: 15944385976     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000151465.10356.dd     Document Type: Article

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