Use of regenerative human acellular tissue (AlloDerm) to reconstruct the abdominal wall following pedicle TRAM flap breast reconstruction surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 8-15

  Glasberg, Scot B ^a   D'Amico, Richard A ^b  

^a Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ALLODERM;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CELL DENSITY; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SEROMA; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; TRANSPLANTATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SEROMA; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 33746852538     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000220470.97776.f5     Document Type: Article

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