Evolution of the pedicled TRAM flap: A prospective study of 500 consecutive cases by a single surgeon in Asian patients

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 378-382

  Kim, Eun Key ^a   Eom, Jin Sup ^a   Ahn, Sei Hyun ^a   Son, Byung Ho ^a   Lee, Taik Jong ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Fat; Immediate breast reconstruction; Necrosis; Pedicled TRAM flap

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST REDUCTION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EXERCISE; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NIPPLE; OBESITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN NECROSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349895350     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181951708     Document Type: Article

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