Bilateral breast reconstruction with DIEP flaps: 4 years' experience

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1309-1315

  Drazan, Lubos ^a   Vesely, Jiri ^a   Hyza, Petr ^a   Castagnetti, Fabio ^a   Stupka, Igor ^a   Justan, Ivan ^a   Novak, Pavel ^a   Monni, Nicola ^a  

^a ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bilateral breast reconstruction; DIEP; Prophylactic mastectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SEROMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROSIS; BREAST MALFORMATION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT NECROSIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEROMA; SURGEON; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTHETICS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53349098924     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.06.028     Document Type: Article

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