The 3-hour muscle-sparing free TRAM flap: Safe and effective treatment review of 111 consecutive free TRAM flaps in a private practice setting

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-34

  Elliott, L Franklyn ^a,b   Seify, Hisham ^a   Bergey, Patti ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT SALVAGE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; ESTHETICS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIVATE PRACTICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC ARTERIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34250779892     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000263319.24710.92     Document Type: Review

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