Postmastectomy reconstruction: An approach to patient selection

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-52

  Disa, Joseph J ^a   McCarthy, Colleen M ^a   Mehrara, Babak J ^a   Pusic, Andrea L ^a   Hu, Qunying Y ^a   Cordeiro, Peter G ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST PROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEROMA; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68249091810     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31818b9005     Document Type: Article

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