Inclusion of mesh in donor-site repair of free TRAM and muscle-sparing free TRAM flaps yields rates of abdominal complications comparable to those of DIEP flap reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 367-374

  Wan, Derrick C ^a   Tseng, Charles Y ^a   Anderson Dam, John ^a   Dalio, Andrew L ^a   Crisera, Christopher A ^a   Festekjian, Jaco H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLYPROPYLENES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL MESH; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955367876     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181de1b7e     Document Type: Article

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