Bilateral free DIEP breast reconstruction using contralateral internal mammary and ipsilateral thoracodorsal vessels [8]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1385-1386

  Bains, Robert Dunford ^a   Riaz, Muhammad ^a   Stanley, Paul ^a  

^a CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACODORSAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247583407     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000255180.17788.8c     Document Type: Letter

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