TRAM flaps: A reconstructive option after bilateral nipple-sparing total mastectomy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 986-992

  Dao, Tuoc Ngoc ^a   Verheyden, Charles N ^a,b  

^a Division of Plastic Surgery ^*

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; EVALUATION; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NIPPLE SPARING TOTAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 24944511480     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000178394.77346.53     Document Type: Article

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