Blood transfusion and risk of metastatic disease or recurrence in patients undergoing immediate TRAM flap breast reconstruction: A clinical study and meta-analysis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2001-2007

  Rinker, Brian D ^a,b   Bowling, Jason Timothy ^a   Vasconez, Henry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CALCULATION; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; META ANALYSIS; METASTASIS; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 34249780843     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000260583.61020.ad     Document Type: Article

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