Complications associated with breast reconstruction using a perforator flap compared with a free TRAM flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 355-358

  Scheer, Adena S ^a   Novak, Christine B ^c   Neligan, Peter C ^b,d   Lipa, Joan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast; Complications; Free tissue transfer; Perforator flap; TRAM flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMORBIDITY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; DONOR SITE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NECROSIS; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROMA; SKIN NECROSIS; TISSUE FLAP; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 33645407407     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000201549.83738.42     Document Type: Review

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