A new "siamese" flap for breast reconstruction: The combined infragluteal-transverse myocutaneous gracilis muscle flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1110-1117

  Schoeller, Thomas ^b   Huemer, Georg M ^a   Kolehmainen, Maija ^b   Otto Schoeller, Angela ^b   Wechselberger, Gottfried ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MICROSURGERY; MUSCLE FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NIPPLES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 16444369905     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000156213.68163.1B     Document Type: Article

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