Breast reconstruction with the deep inferior epigastric perforator flap: History and an update on current technique

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 571-579

  Granzow, Jay W ^a   Levine, Joshua L ^b   Chiu, Ernest S ^b   Allen, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; DIEP; Microsurgery; Perforator flap; SIEA

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DONOR SITE; FASCIA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RELIABILITY; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33646556131     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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