TRAM-flap perfusion across a midline scar 22 years after a lower median laparotomy

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 992-993

  Holzbach, Thomas ^a   Mueller, Daniel F ^a   Unbehaun, Nikolaus ^a   Paepke, Stefan ^a   Giunta, Riccardo E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LASER; LETTER; PERFORATOR FLAP; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 48049100137     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.08.039     Document Type: Letter

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