Our early experience in the use of tissue glue to reduce the incidence of seroma formation from the latissimus dorsi flap donor site [13]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 347-348

  Akhtar, Sohail ^a,b,c   Spyrou, George E ^a   Fourie, Le Roux ^a  

^a PINDERFIELDS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Derbyshire Royal Infirmary ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c DERBYSHIRE ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; TISSUE ADHESIVE;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CARCINOGENESIS; DONOR SITE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROMA; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; WOUND CLOSURE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; SEROMA; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 21744447491     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000173545.11707.ED     Document Type: Letter

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