The pedicled transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap: Indications, techniques, and outcomes

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1047-1054

  Buck, Donald W ^a   Fine, Neil A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMORBIDITY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEROMA; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349792640     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181b457b2     Document Type: Article

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