Secondary operations of the anterior abdominal wall following microvascular breast reconstruction with the TRAM and DIEP flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 365-372

  Nahabedian, Maurice Y ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LIPODYSTROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SEROMA; SKIN NECROSIS; STATISTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 34447507591     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000267339.93859.1e     Document Type: Article

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