Nipple reconstruction: Evidence-based trials in the plastic surgical literature

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-20

  Momeni, Arash ^a   Becker, Axel ^a   Torio Padron, Nestor ^a   Iblher, Niklas ^a   Stark, G Björn ^a   Bannasch, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Controlled clinical trials; Evidence based medicine; Nipple reconstruction; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NIPPLE RECONSTRUCTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; NIPPLES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37849053264     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-007-9039-0     Document Type: Article

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