500 Consecutive patients with free TRAM flap breast reconstruction: A single surgeon's experience

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 329-339

  Vega, Stephen ^a   Smartt Jr , James M ^a   Jiang, Shao ^a   Selber, Jesse C ^a   Brooks, Christopher J M ^a   Herrera, H Raul ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; IRRADIATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMATOMA; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 67651167661     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817f45cb     Document Type: Article

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