Improving outcomes in bilateral breast reconstruction using autogenous tissue

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 487-490

  Vega, Stephen J ^a   Bossert, Ronald P ^b,d   Serletti, Joseph M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autologous breast reconstruction; Bilateral; DIEP; SIEA; TRAM

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; AUTOGRAFT; AUTOLOGOUS BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; NEURALGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REVIEW; SEROMA; SUPERIOR INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 33745677653     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000205236.88313.10     Document Type: Review

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