Bipedicle deep inferior epigastric perforator flap for unilateral breast reconstruction: Seven years' experience

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1797-1807

  Xu, Hua ^a   Dong, Jiasheng ^a   Wang, Tao ^a  

^a SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049088210     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181bf81cf     Document Type: Article

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