Low complication rates are achievable after postmastectomy breast reconstruction and radiation therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1080-1087

  Anderson, Penny R ^a   Hanlon, Alexandra L ^a   McNeeley, Shawn W ^a   Freedman, Gary M ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast reconstruction; Cosmesis; Mastectomy; Radiation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

MASTECTOMY; TISSUE EXPANDER;

ONCOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042516963     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2003.12.036     Document Type: Article

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