Effects of radiation therapy on pedicled transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 568-572

  Carlson, Grant W ^a,b   Page, Andrew L ^a   Peters, Kendall ^a   Ashinoff, Russell ^a   Schaefer, Timothy ^a   Losken, Albert ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radiation; TRAM flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE FLAP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

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

EID: 42549159914     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31815b6ced     Document Type: Conference Paper

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