Integrating the DIEP and muscle-sparing (MS-2) free TRAM techniques optimizes surgical outcomes: Presentation of an algorithm for microsurgical breast reconstruction based on perforator anatomy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-27

  Lindsey, John T ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CELLULITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DONOR SITE; FAT NECROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KELOID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33847013804     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000244743.90178.89     Document Type: Article

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