Redesigned gluteal artery perforator flap for breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 728-734

  Kronowitz, Steven J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GLUTEAL ARTERY; HUMAN; PERFORATOR FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; BUTTOCK; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; BUTTOCKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 40549143130     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000299296.32924.d7     Document Type: Article

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