Breast reconstruction following mastectomy for breast cancer: The decisions of sexual minority women

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 464-472

  Boehmer, Ulrike ^a   Linde, Rhonda ^b   Freund, Karen M ^b  

^a Center for Health Quality Outcomes and Economic Research   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL MINORITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BISEXUALITY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 33846446418     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000246402.79334.3b     Document Type: Article

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