Simultaneous bilateral breast reconstruction with in-the-crease inferior gluteal artery perforator flaps

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 249-254

  Levine, Joshua L ^a,b   Miller, Quintessa ^c,e   Vasile, Julie ^a,b   Khoobehi, Kamran ^c   Craigie, James ^d   Wise, Matthew W ^c   Allen, Robert J ^a,b  

^a Center for Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction   (United States)

^b Center for Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Center for Natural Breast Reconstruction   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BUTTOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DONOR SITE; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; LENGTH OF STAY; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VENOUS CONGESTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BUTTOCKS; COHORT STUDIES; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 69549086434     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31818c4ace     Document Type: Article

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