Risk factors and complications in reduction mammaplasty: Novel associations and preoperative assessment

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1040-1046

  Henry, Steven L ^a   Crawford, J Lauren ^a   Puckett, Charles L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Division of Plastic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST REDUCTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROMA; OBESITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349835772     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181b45410     Document Type: Article

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