The "banked" TRAM: A method to insure mastectomy skin-flap survival

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 366-369

  Kovach, Stephen J ^a   Georgiade, Gregory S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Mastectomy flap loss; TRAM flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MUSCLE FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN FLAP; SKIN NECROSIS; SUTURING METHOD; TRANSVERSUS RECTUS ABDOMINUS MUSCLE FLAP;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, SIMPLE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749020821     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000221983.23546.09     Document Type: Article

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