The pedicled descending branch muscle-sparing latissimus dorsi flap for breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-24

  Saint Cyr, Michel ^a   Nagarkar, Purushottam ^a   Schaverien, Mark ^a   Dauwe, Phillip ^a   Wong, Corrine ^a   Rohrich, Rod J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRRADIATION; MASTECTOMY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PEDICLED DESCENDING BRANCH MUSCLE SPARING LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANGE OF MOTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; SHOULDER; STRENGTH; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACODORSAL ARTERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60549100503     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181934838     Document Type: Article

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