Inception and Evolution of the Components Separation Technique: Personal Recollections

Clinics in Plastic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 241-246

  Ramirez, Oscar M ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Esthetique Internationale   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE GRAFT; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SURGICAL WOUND;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; BUTTOCKS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33646082504     PISSN: 00941298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2005.12.011     Document Type: Review

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