The transverse musculocutaneous gracilis flap for breast reconstruction: Guidelines for flap and patient selection

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-38

  Schoeller, Thomas ^a   Huemer, Georg M ^a   Wechselberger, Gottfried ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRACILIS FLAP; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSURGERY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; BREAST DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 48049120638     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318177436c     Document Type: Article

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