Closer to an understanding of fate: The role of vascular complications in free flap breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 835-843

  Fosnot, Joshua ^a   Jandali, Shareef ^a   Low, David W ^a   Kovach III, Stephen J ^a   Wu, Liza C ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 80052991887     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318218fc95     Document Type: Review

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