Stacked deep inferior epigastric perforator flap breast reconstruction: A review of 110 flaps in 55 cases over 3 years

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1093-1099

  Dellacroce, Frank J ^a   Sullivan, Scott K ^a   Trahan, Chris ^a  

^a Center for Restorative Breast Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952766634     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318205f223     Document Type: Article

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