Patients' and surgeons' perspectives on the scar components after inferior pedicle breast reduction surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 459-464

  Çelebiler, Özhan ^a,b   Sönmez, Ahmet ^a,b   Erdim, Melike ^a,b   Yaman, Meral ^a,b   Numanoǧlu, Ayhan ^a,b,c  

^a Marmara University School of Medicine ^*

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST REDUCTION; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCAR; SKIN COLOR; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; CICATRIX; COLOR; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 23044477957     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000173060.02593.3a     Document Type: Review

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