DIEP flaps in women with abdominal scars: Are complication rates affected?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1527-1531

  Parrett, Brian M ^a   Caterson, Stephanie A ^a   Tobias, Adam M ^a   Lee, Bernard T ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BULGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DONOR SITE; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SEROMA; SMOKING;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CICATRIX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROMA; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 43149101601     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31816b14a5     Document Type: Article

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