Free flap breast reconstruction in advanced age: Is it safe?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1015-1022

  Selber, Jesse C ^a   Bergey, Meredith ^a   Sonnad, Seema S ^a   Kovach, Stephen ^a   Wu, Liza ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERFICIAL INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY FLAP; THROMBOSIS; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349838726     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181b453fd     Document Type: Article

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