Risk factors for abdominal donor-site morbidity in free flap breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1519-1526

  Vyas, Raj M ^a   Dickinson, Brian P ^a   Fastekjian, Jaco H ^a   Watson, James P ^a   DaLio, Andrew L ^a   Crisera, Christopher A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DONOR SITE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEMATOMA; HERNIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NECROSIS; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL MESH; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 43149115383     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31816b1458     Document Type: Article

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