Immediate postoperative complications in DIEP versus free/muscle-sparing TRAM flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1477-1482

  Chen, Constance M ^a   Halvorson, Eric G ^a   Disa, Joseph J ^a   McCarthy, Colleen ^a   Hu, Qun Ying ^a   Pusic, Andrea L ^a   Cordeiro, Peter G ^a   Mehrara, Babak J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DEMOGRAPHY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME VARIABLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38449086776     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000288014.76151.f7     Document Type: Article

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