Preventing seroma in the latissimus dorsi flap donor site with fibrin sealant

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 12-16

  Weinrach, Jonathan C ^a   Cronin, Ernest D ^a   Smith, Bruce K ^a   Collins Jr , Donald R ^a   Cohen, Benjamin E ^a  

^a St Joseph's Medical Center Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE;

BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; DRAIN; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROMA; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SERUM; TISSUE ADHESIVES;

EID: 3042755680     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000112286.30212.12     Document Type: Review

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