Autologous Breast Reconstruction: The Vanderbilt Experience (1998 to 2005) of Independent Predictors of Displeasing Outcomes

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-56

  Greco III, Joseph A ^a   Castaldo, Eric T ^a   Nanney, Lillian B ^a   Wu, Y C ^a   Donahue, Rafe ^a   Wendel, J Jason ^a   Hagan, Kevin F ^a   Shack, R Bruce ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAT NECROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HERNIA; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45549086000     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.12.052     Document Type: Article

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