Timing of breast reconstruction: Immediate versus delayed

Cancer Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 223-229

  Chevray, Pierre M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast implants; Breast reconstruction; Surgical flaps

Indexed keywords

AUTOGRAFT; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTRACTURE; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURGICAL RISK; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; TIME;

BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 58149179238     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: 1540336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PPO.0b013e3181824e37     Document Type: Review

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