Rib-sparing internal mammary vessel harvest for microvascular breast reconstruction in 100 consecutive cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1403-1407

  Sacks, Justin M ^a   Chang, David W ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB CARTILAGE; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; SUPERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; BREAST TUMOR; MAMMARY ARTERY; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MICROVASCULATURE; PLASTIC SURGERY; RIB; THORACOTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MICROVESSELS; RIBS; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACOTOMY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 66549089471     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181a07249     Document Type: Article

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