Abdominal wall neuroma pain after breast reconstruction with a transverse abdominal musculocutaneous flap: Cause and treatment

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 330-334

  Rosson, Gedge D ^a   Dellon, A Lee ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall pain; Breast reconstruction; Neuroma; TRAM

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL NEUROMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIOHYPOGASTRIC NERVE; ILIOINGUINAL NERVE; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NERVE; NEUROMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINUS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ABDOMINAL WALL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 24044485920     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000168689.98417.85     Document Type: Article

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