Is a second free flap still an option in a failed free flap breast reconstruction?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 375-384

  Hamdi, Moustapha ^a,b   Andrades, Patricio ^a   Thiessen, Filip ^a   Stillaert, Filip ^a   Roche, Nathalie ^a   Van Landuyt, Koenraad ^a   Monstrey, Stan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77955352797     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181de22f3     Document Type: Article

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