Routine histologic examination of 728 mastectomy scars: Did it benefit our patients?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1288-1292

  Woerdeman, Leonie A E ^a   Kortmann, Jan B J ^a   Hage, J Joris ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750256963     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000239459.59548.4a     Document Type: Article

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