Changing trends in recipient vessel selection for microvascular autologous breast reconstruction: An analysis of 1483 consecutive cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1993-2000

  Saint Cyr, Michel ^a   Youssef, Adel ^a   Bae, Hyung Woon ^a   Robb, Geoffrey L ^a   Chang, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; FAT NECROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROVASCULATURE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROMA; SURGICAL RISK; THORACODORSAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; FEMALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34249803233     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000260636.43385.90     Document Type: Article

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