Does AlloDerm stretch?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1276-1280

  Nahabedian, Maurice Y ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ABDOMEN; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COLLAGEN; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 34848881993     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000279342.48795.9a     Document Type: Article

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