Breast reconstruction with postmastectomy radiation therapy: Current issues

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 950-960

  Kronowitz, Steven J ^a,b   Robb, Geoffrey L ^a,b  

^a Univ Texas M D Anderson Cancer C ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DECISION MAKING; ESTHETIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; COOPERATION; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 5444275956     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000133200.99826.7F     Document Type: Review

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