The psychological effects of breast cancer and reconstruction: "a stroll down mammary lane"-a patient's artistic journal

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-5

  Perdikis, Galen ^a   Fakhre, G Peter ^b   Speed, Elizabeth A ^a   Griggs, Rosemary ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Artist and Breast Cancer Survivor ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; psychological; reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ART; ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PREMENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ART; ART THERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PREMENOPAUSE;

EID: 79959769143     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31821190c5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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