Double-pedicle abdominal perforator free flaps for unilateral breast reconstruction: new horizons in microsurgical tissue transfer to the breast

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 904-912

  Hamdi, Moustapha ^a   Khuthaila, Dana K ^a   Van Landuyt, Koenraad ^a   Roche, Nathalie ^a   Monstrey, Stan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Contraindications; DIEP flap; Liposuction; Scars; SIEA flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; ECHOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FAT NECROSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT NECROSIS; GRAFT PERFUSION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LIPOSUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; BREAST DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIPECTOMY; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 34347227415     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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