A retrospective analysis of outcomes using three common methods for immediate breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 340-347

  Spear, Scott L ^a   Newman, Michael K ^a   Bedford, M Susann ^a   Schwartz, Karl A ^a   Cohen, Michael ^a   Schwartz, Jaime S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG USE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT NECROSIS; GRAFT SALVAGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IMPLANT MALPOSITION; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; SKIN NECROSIS; SMOKING; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND CARE;

BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 67749118127     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817d6009     Document Type: Article

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