Does immediate breast reconstruction using free flaps lead to delay in the administration of adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer?

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 745-749

  Kontos, M ^a   Lewis, R S ^a   Luchtenborg M ^b   Holmberg, L ^b   Hamed, H ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjuvant treatment; Breast cancer; Delay; Free flaps; Immediate reconstruction; TRAM flaps

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; TIME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954889445     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: 15322157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2010.06.013     Document Type: Article

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