Immediate breast reconstruction in two stages using textured, integrated-valve tissue expanders and breast implants

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2098-2103

  Spear, Scott L ^a,b   Pelletiere, Christopher V ^a,b  

^a Georgetown University Hospital ^*

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; SILICONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAMETER; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE EXPANSION; IMPLANT; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BREAST IMPLANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE EXPANDERS;

EID: 3242732304     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000122406.99750.C3     Document Type: Article

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