Transplantation in identical twins: Another option for breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1019-1023

  Allen, Robert J ^a   Lotempio, Maria M ^a   Craigie, James E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MASTECTOMY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SKIN FLAP; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; BREAST TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PLASTIC SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 53149093990     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181858bb6     Document Type: Article

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