A subjective rating scale for evaluating the appearance outcome of autologous breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 440-449

  Cohen, Michael ^a,b   Evanoff, Bradley ^a,b   George, Laura T ^a,b   Brandt, Keith E ^a,b  

^a Washington University School of Medicine ^*

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ESTHETICS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURGEON;

ESTHETICS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMAPLASTY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23044459448     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000173214.05854.e4     Document Type: Article

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