Evaluation of outcomes in breast reconstructions combining lower abdominal free flaps and permanent implants

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 349-357

  Roehl, Kendall R ^a   Baumann, Donald P ^a   Chevray, Pierre M ^a   Chang, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ESTHETICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955414705     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181de1b67     Document Type: Article

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