Options in reconstructing the irradiated breast

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 379-388

  Spear, Scott L ^a   Boehmler, James H ^a   Bogue, David P ^a   Mafi, Amir A ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS TISSUE FLAP; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTRACTURE; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

BREAST; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 67651226080     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817d605f     Document Type: Article

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