Fat necrosis in deep inferior epigastric perforator flaps: An ultrasound-based review of 202 cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1754-1758

  Peeters, Wouter J ^a   Nanhekhan, Lloyd ^a   Van Ongeval, Chantal ^a   Fabré, Gerd ^a   Vandevoort, Marc ^a  

^a Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 74049113722     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181bf7e03     Document Type: Article

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