Muscle sparing-2 transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous flap for breast reconstruction: A comparison with deep inferior epigastric perforator flap

Microsurgery

Volumn 28, Issue 8 SPEC. ISS, 2008, Pages 650-655

  Takeishi, Meisei ^a   Fujimoto, Masashi ^a   Ishida, Katuhiro ^a   Makino, Yojiro ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BULGE; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DONOR SITE; FAT NECROSIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; VASCULAR PEDICLE;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 55949123975     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20563     Document Type: Article

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