Comparison of local recurrence and distant metastases between breast cancer patients after postmastectomy radiotherapy with and without immediate TRAM flap reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1079-1086

  Huang, Chih Jen ^a   Hou, Ming Feng ^a   Lin, Sin Daw ^a   Chuang, Hung Yi ^a   Huang, Ming Yii ^a   Fu, Ou Yang ^a   Lian, Shi Long ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; THORAX WALL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TAMOXIFEN; TAXOIDS; THORACIC WALL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749426646     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000220527.35442.44     Document Type: Article

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