Evaluation of late results in breast reconstruction by latissimus dorsi flap and prosthesis implantation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1387-1394

  Tarantino, Ignazio ^a   Banic, Andrej ^a   Fischer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST PROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; ESTHETICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646832010     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000207396.22527.68     Document Type: Article

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