Permanent pressure alopecia after microsurgical breast reconstruction [18]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2095-2096

  Regev, Eli ^a   Goldan, Oren ^a   Orenstein, Arie ^a   Winkler, Eyal ^a   Haik, Josef ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALOPECIA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; PERMANENT PRESSURE ALOPECIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BREAST TUMOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; INJURY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESSURE; SCALP; SUPINE POSITION;

ALOPECIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; SCALP; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 33646827135     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000214754.01731.85     Document Type: Letter

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