TRAM flap breast reconstruction: Tumescent technique reduces blood loss and transfusion requirement

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1645-1649

  Paige, Keith T ^a,b,c   Bostwick III, John ^a,b   Bried, Jean Timble ^a,b  

^a Emory University ^*

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; LIDOCAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT REJECTION; HERNIA; HUMAN; LIPECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMESCENT TECHNIQUE; ABDOMINAL WALL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INFUSION PUMP; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EPINEPHRINE; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS; MAMMAPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 2442473988     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000117195.00724.27     Document Type: Article

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