Breast mound salvage using vacuum-assisted closure device as bridge to reconstruction with inferolateral AlloDerm hammock

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 218-224

  Liao, Eric C ^a   Breuing, Karl H ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acellular dermal matrix; AlloDerm; Breast reconstruction; Hematoma; Implant infection; VAC; Vacuum assisted closure device

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LISINOPRIL; SILICONE GEL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BORDERLINE HYPERTENSION; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST INJURY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; GARDENING; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LUNG CARCINOMA; MASTECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATING ROOM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST IMPLANTS; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; VACUUM;

EID: 34547657595     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31802c148c     Document Type: Article

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