Diagnostic dilemma: Acellular dermis mimicking a breast mass after immediate tissue expander breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Buck II, Donald W ^a   Heyer, Kamaldeep ^a   Wayne, Jeffrey D ^a   Yeldandi, Anjana ^a   Kim, John Y S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACELLULAR DERMIS; ADULT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANT; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLLAGEN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 68249130125     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181a83c69     Document Type: Letter

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