Does Patient Satisfaction with Breast Reconstruction Change over Time? Two-Year Results of the Michigan Breast Reconstruction Outcomes Study

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-12

  Alderman, Amy K ^a,b   Kuhn, Latoya E ^b   Lowery, Julie C ^b   Wilkins, Edwin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845672053     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.09.022     Document Type: Article

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