Ischemic complications in pedicle, free, and muscle sparing transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flaps for breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 562-567

  Andrades, Patricio ^a,b   Fix, R Jobe ^a   Danilla, Stefan ^a   Howell III, Robert E ^a   Campbell, William J ^a   De La Torre, Jorge ^a   Vasconez, Luis O ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b FOT 1102 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Free TRAM flap; Muscle sparing TRAM flap; Pedicle TRAM flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR SITE; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HERNIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 42549157065     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31816fc372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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