Recovery of sensation in immediate breast reconstruction with latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flaps after breast-conservative surgery and skin-sparing mastectomy

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 334-338

  Tomita, Koichi ^a,b   Yano, Kenji ^a   Hosokawa, Ko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breast reconstruction; breast conservative surgery; latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap; recovery of sensation; skin sparing mastectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; TOUCH; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952902063     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181ee73cf     Document Type: Article

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