Shaping the breast in aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery: An easy three-step principle. part ii-breast reconstruction after total mastectomy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 794-805

  Blondeel, Phillip N ^a   Hijjawi, John ^a   Depypere, Herman ^a   Roche, Nathalie ^a   Van Landuyt, Koenraad ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; DONOR SITE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

BREAST IMPLANTS; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 67651232591     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318199ef16     Document Type: Article

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