Double pedicle deep inferior epigastric perforator/muscle-sparing TRAM flaps for unilateral breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 359-363

  Agarwal, Jayant P ^a   Gottlieb, Lawrence J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; DIEP flaps; Double pedicle flaps

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; BACKACHE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SPORT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

ADULT; AGED; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; ESTHETICS; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34147169605     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000239818.28900.81     Document Type: Review

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