Stacked free siea/diep flap for unilateral breast reconstruction in a thin patient with an abdominal vertical midline scar

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 523-526

  Figus, Andrea ^a,b   Fioramonti, Paolo ^a   Ramakrishnan, Venkat ^a  

^a BROOMFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL VERTICAL MIDLINE SCAR; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CASE REPORT; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DISSECTION; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SCAR; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; ABDOMEN; ANASTOMOSIS; BODY WEIGHT; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SCAR; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CICATRIX; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; SURGICAL FLAPS; THINNESS;

EID: 43049180236     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1022692     Document Type: Letter

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