Effects of an autologous flap combined with an implant for breast reconstruction: An evaluation of 1000 consecutive reconstructions of previously irradiated breasts

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 356-362

  Chang, David W ^a   Barnea, Yoav ^a   Robb, Geoffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS TISSUE FLAP; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRRADIATION; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; RADIATION DOSE; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TISSUE FLAP; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 67650552635     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817d6303     Document Type: Article

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