Factors associated with anastomotic failure after microvascular reconstruction of the breast

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 74-82

  Nahabedian, Maurice Y ^a   Momen, Bahram ^b   Manson, Paul N ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROVASCULATURE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; VASCULAR FIBROSIS; VEIN OCCLUSION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NECROSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 3142670670     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000127798.69644.65     Document Type: Article

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