Irradiation after immediate tissue expander/implant breast reconstruction: Outcomes, complications, aesthetic results, and satisfaction among 156 patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 877-881

  Cordeiro, Peter G ^a,b   Pusic, Andrea L ^a   Disa, Joseph J ^a   McCormick, Beryl ^a   VanZee, Kimberly ^a  

^a Mem Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ^*

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; REVIEW; ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TISSUE EXPANSION;

BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 2542490442     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000105689.84930.E5     Document Type: Review

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