A two-year prospective analysis of trunk function in TRAM breast reconstructions

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2131-2138

  Alderman, Amy K ^a   Kuzon Jr , William M ^b   Wilkins, Edwin G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEASUREMENT; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; BIOMECHANICS; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PLIABILITY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; TIME; TISSUE EXPANSION; TORQUE; TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOMECHANICS; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PLIABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE EXPANSION; TORQUE;

EID: 33745425631     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000218176.40705.5a     Document Type: Article

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