Bilateral autogenous breast reconstruction using perforator free flaps: A single center's experience. Discussion

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 90-92

  Nahabedian, Maurice Y ^a,b,c  

^a Johns Hopkins Hospital ^*

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARLEX;

ABDOMINAL BULGE; ABDOMINAL MUSCLE STRENGTH; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; AUTOGRAFT; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DONOR SITE; DONOR SITE MORBIDITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOTOMY; NOTE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDICLED TRANVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; POLAND SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SUPERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND CLOSURE;

EID: 4444381374     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000127800.07763.9E     Document Type: Note

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