Assessment of TRAM aesthetics: The importance of subunit integration

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-24

  Song, Angela Y ^b   Fernstrom, Madelyn H ^b   Scott, John A ^b   Ren, Dian X ^b   Rubin, J Peter ^b   Shestak, Kenneth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ESTHETICS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644859356     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000194925.35873.ac     Document Type: Article

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