An innovative three-dimensional approach to defining the anatomical changes occurring after short scar-medial pedicle reduction mammaplasty

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1875-1885

  Tepper, Oren M ^a,b   Choi, Mihye ^a,b   Small, Kevin ^a,b   Unger, Jacob ^a,b   Davidson, Edward ^a,b   Rudolph, Lauren ^a,b   Pritchard, Ashley ^a,b   Karp, Nolan S ^a,b  

^a New York University Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST REDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRY; BREAST; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BREAST; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48049092266     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817151db     Document Type: Article

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