Respecting the aesthetic unit in autologous breast reconstruction improves the outcome

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1685-1691

  Pülzl, Petra ^a   Schoeller, Thomas ^a   Wechselberger, Gottfried ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST PTOSIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST REDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPITHELIZATION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; ESTHETICS; EVALUATION; LIGAMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SCAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CICATRIX; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646831995     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000218334.31351.4f     Document Type: Article

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