Breast reconstruction with the latissimus dorsi flap: Women's preference for scar location

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 358-365

  Bailey, Steven ^a   Saint Cyr, Michel ^a   Zhang, Kathy ^a   Mojallal, Ali ^a   Wong, Corrine ^a   Ouyang, Da ^a   Maia, Munique ^a   Zhang, Song ^a   Rohrich, Rod J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAR; SUTURING METHOD; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CICATRIX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955352437     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181de1b41     Document Type: Article

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