The internal mammary artery and vein as recipient vessels for microvascular breast reconstruction: Are we burning a future bridge?

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 311-316

  Nahabedian, Maurice Y ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEART DISEASE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; IMPLANT; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTERNAL MAMMARY VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROVASCULARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SMOKING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN;

AGED; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VEINS;

EID: 4644236569     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000134519.34255.b9     Document Type: Article

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