Patient satisfaction in unilateral and bilateral breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1417-1424

  Craft, Randall O ^a   Colakoglu, Salih ^a   Curtis, Michael S ^a   Yueh, Janet H ^a   Lee, Britt S ^a   Tobias, Adam M ^a   Lee, Bernard T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE EXPANSION DEVICES;

EID: 79955004139     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318208d12a     Document Type: Article

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