Complications after microvascular breast reconstruction: Experience with 1195 flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1100-1109

  Mehrara, Babak J ^a   Santoro, Timothy D ^b   Arcilla, Eric ^b   Watson, James P ^b   Shaw, William W ^b   Da Lio, Andrew L ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; FAT NECROSIS; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SMOKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; THROMBOSIS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33749451502     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000236898.87398.d6     Document Type: Article

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