Simultaneous bilateral breast reconstruction with superior gluteal artery perforator (SGAP) flaps

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 305-310

  Guerra, Aldo Benjamin ^a,b   Soueid, Nassif ^a   Metzinger, Stephen Eric ^a   Levine, Joshua ^a   Bidros, Rafi Sirop ^a   Erhard, Heather ^a   Allen, Robert Johnson ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Plastic Surgery Center Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral; Breast reconstruction; Gluteal; Perforator

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE FLAP; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOFT TISSUE; SUPERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN GRAFT;

ADULT; ARTERIES; BUTTOCKS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 4644296354     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000128619.83670.e1     Document Type: Article

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