Breast reconstruction in older women: Should age be an exclusion criterion?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-22

  Bowman, Cameron C ^a,b   Lennox, Peter A ^a   Clugston, Patricia A ^a   Courtemanche, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENESCENCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BODY IMAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASTIC SURGERY;

AGED; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33746827011     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000220473.94654.a4     Document Type: Article

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