Delayed-immediate breast reconstruction: Technical and timing considerations

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 463-474

  Kronowitz, Steven J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN; SUTURING METHOD; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRAINAGE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE EXPANSION DEVICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 76949101439     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181c82d58     Document Type: Article

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