Evaluation of abdominal wall strength after TRAM flap surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1662-1665

  Dulin, William A ^a   Avila, Rafael A ^a   Verheyden, Charles N ^a,b   Grossman, Leonard ^a  

^a Scott and White Mem Hosp and Clin ^*

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DYNAMOMETRY; HUMAN; MACHINE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERFORMANCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TRUNK; ABDOMINAL WALL; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 2442419782     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000117197.77201.14     Document Type: Article

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