Avoiding denervation of rectus abdominis in DIEP flap harvest: The importance of medial row perforators

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 710-716

  Rozen, Warren M ^a   Ashton, Mark W ^a   Murray, Alice C A ^a   Taylor, G Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE PLEXUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RISK FACTOR; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 52049116548     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318180ed8b     Document Type: Article

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