Internal mammary intercostal perforators instead of the true internal mammary vessels as the recipient vessels for breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-40

  Follmar, Keith E ^a   Prucz, Roni B ^a   Manahan, Michele A ^a   Magarakis, Michael ^a   Rad, Ariel N ^a   Rosson, Gedge D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAMMARY ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE SURVIVAL; VASCULARIZATION;

BREAST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

EID: 78651336441     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181f95865     Document Type: Article

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