Immediate nipple reconstruction on a free TRAM flap breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1115-1124

  Williams, Eric H ^a   Rosenberg, Lawrence Z ^a   Kolm, Paul ^a   De La Torre, Jorge I ^a   Fix, R Jobe ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NIPPLE; OPERATION DURATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TATTOO; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

ADULT; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; NIPPLES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TATTOOING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34848871676     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000279142.46729.94     Document Type: Article

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