Internal mammary perforator recipient vessels for breast reconstruction using free tram, diep, and siea flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 315-316

  Munhoz, Alexandre Mendonça ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DIABETES MELLITUS; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; PERFORATOR FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; MAMMARY ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; NOTE; PLASTIC SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MICROSURGERY; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 48049084763     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181774945     Document Type: Letter

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