Eliminating the vertical scar in breast reduction-Boston modification of the Robertson technique

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 687-696

  Movassaghi, Kiya ^a   Liao, Eric C ^a   Ting, Vivian ^a   Matros, Evan ^a   Morris, Donald J ^a   Orgill, Dennis P ^a   Pribaz, Julian J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST HYPERTROPHY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIPPLE; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SCAR; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 33845573722     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: 1527330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asj.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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