Sensibility following innervated free TRAM flap for breast reconstruction: Part ii. innervation improves patient-rated quality of life

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1419-1425

  Temple, Claire L F ^a,b   Ross, Douglas C ^a,b   Kim, Sharon ^a,b   Tse, Raymond ^a,b   Bettger Hahn, Margo ^a,b   Gan, Bing Siang ^a,b   MacDermid, Joy ^a,b  

^a ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BODY IMAGE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRANSFER; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73549100888     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181b98963     Document Type: Article

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