Prophylactic mastectomy, oophorectomy, hysterectomy, and immediate transverse rectus abdominis muscle flap breast reconstruction in a BRCA-2- positive patient

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 548-555

  Spear, Scott L ^a   Pennanen, Marie ^a   Barter, James ^a   Burke, James Ben ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SCREENING; CASE REPORT; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MASTECTOMY; MUSCLE FLAP; ONCOGENE; OVARIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, SIMPLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33744973380     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199902000-00027     Document Type: Article

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