Clinical outcome and patients' satisfaction after simultaneous bilateral breast reconstruction with free transverse rectus abdominis muscle (TRAM) flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 199-204

  Kovacs, Laszlo ^a   Papadopulos, Nikolaos A ^a   Ammar, Samir A ^a   Klöppel, Markus ^a   Herschbach, Peter ^a   Heinrich, Garhard ^a   Baumann, Andreas ^a   Biemer, Edgar ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilateral breast reconstruction; Patient satisfaction; Quality of life; TRAM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MUSCLE FLAP; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REOPERATION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL LIFE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE FLAP; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4644336837     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000120525.86997.52     Document Type: Article

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