The Pedicled TRAM Flap in Breast Reconstruction

Clinics in Plastic Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-104

  Jones, Glyn ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST SURGERY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DONOR SITE; FAT NECROSIS; GRAFT FAILURE; HERNIA; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; NIPPLE; OBESITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SKIN INCISION; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN SCAR; SMOKING; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY DELAY; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; NIPPLES; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33846967834     PISSN: 00941298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2006.11.014     Document Type: Review

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