DIEP flap with implant: a further option in optimising breast reconstruction

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1118-1126

  Figus, Andrea ^a   Canu, Vanessa ^a   Iwuagwu, Fortune C ^a   Ramakrishnan, Venkat ^a  

^a BROOMFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autogenous tissue with implants; Breast reconstruction; Diep; Implants; Perforator flaps

Indexed keywords

SILICONE GEL;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SAFETY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST IMPLANTS; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SILICONE GELS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68349154837     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.12.089     Document Type: Article

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