Functional donor site morbidity following latissimus dorsi muscle flap transfer

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-11

  Adams Jr , William P ^a,c   Lipschitz, Avron H ^a   Ansari, Mona ^b   Kenkel, Jeffrey M ^a   Rohrich, Rod J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Univ of TX Southwestern Med Ctr ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SITTING; WORK CAPACITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 3042801161     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000106430.56501.b5     Document Type: Review

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