The sGAP Flap: Rare exception or second choice in autologous breast reconstruction?

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 251-258

  Baumeister, Steffen ^a   Werdin, Frank ^a   Peek, Alberto ^a,b  

^a Diakonissenkrankenhaus ^*  (Germany)

^b Clinic for Plastic Sthetic and Reconstructive Surgery   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast reconstruction; Free flap; SGAP flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BUTTOCK; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEEP INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC PERFORATOR FLAP; DONOR SITE; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; SUPERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTERY; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ESTHETICS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MASTECTOMY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BUTTOCKS; COHORT STUDIES; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952931604     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1248233     Document Type: Article

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