Issues, considerations, and trends in bilateral breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1064-1076

  Beahm, Elisabeth K ^a   Walton, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP;

EID: 70349841124     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181a60700     Document Type: Review

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