Chest wall reconstruction using a prolene/hydroxyapatite paste sandwich [15]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 761-762

  Akhavani, Mohammed Ali ^a   Gore, Sinclair ^a   Kang, Norbert ^a  

^a MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; HYDROXYAPATITE; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; COMPOSITE GRAFT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; RIB; STERNUM; SUTURING METHOD; THORAX WALL DEFECT; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DURAPATITE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POLYPROPYLENES; RADIOTHERAPY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL MESH; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THORACIC WALL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33846411441     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000254925.42803.32     Document Type: Letter

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