The Maylard incision: a low transverse incision variant seen in DIEP flap breast reconstruction

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Bar Meir, Eran D ^a   Reish, Richard G ^b   Yueh, Janet H ^b   McArdle, Colin ^a   Tobias, Adam M ^b   Lee, Bernard T ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; DIEP flap; Maylard; Microsurgery; Perforator flap; Pfannenstiel Caesarean section

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAYLARD INCISION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 72049097157     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2008.05.049     Document Type: Article

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