Breast reduction: Safe in the morbidly obese?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 370-378

  Roehl, Kendall ^a   Craig, E Stirling ^a   Gómez, Victoria ^a   Phillips, Linda G ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST HYPERTROPHY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST REDUCTION; CELLULITIS; COMORBIDITY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FREE NIPPLE GRAFT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SEROMA; SMOKING; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67749086534     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817d60f4     Document Type: Article

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