Internal mammary perforator recipient vessels for breast reconstruction using free TRAM, DIEP, and SIEA flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1769-1773

  Saint Cyr, Michel ^a   Chang, David W ^a   Robb, Geoffrey L ^a   Chevray, Pierre M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; PERFORATOR FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MASTECTOMY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 37349053443     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000287132.35433.d6     Document Type: Article

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