A head-to-head comparison between the muscle-sparing free TRAM and the SIEA flaps: Is the rate of flap loss worth the gain in abdominal wall function?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 348-355

  Selber, Jesse C ^a   Samra, Fares ^a   Bristol, Mirar ^a   Sonnad, Seema S ^a   Vega, Stephen ^a   Wu, Liza ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEUROMA; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEROMA; SMOKING; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 67651188669     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817d60b0     Document Type: Article

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