Patient satisfaction in postmastectomy breast reconstruction: A comparative evaluation of DIEP, TRAM, latissimus flap, and implant techniques

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1585-1595

  Yueh, Janet H ^a,b   Slavin, Sumner A ^a,b   Adesiyun, Tolulope ^a,b   Nyame, Theodore T ^a,b   Gautam, Shiva ^a,b   Morris, Donald J ^a,b   Tobias, Adam M ^a,b   Lee, Bernard T ^a,b  

^a Harvard Medical School ^*

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953258556     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181cb6351     Document Type: Article

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