Trials and tribulations with the inferior gluteal artery perforator flap in autologous breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Mirzabeigi, Michael N ^a   Au, Alexander ^a   Jandali, Shareef ^a   Natoli, Noel ^a   Sbitany, Hani ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BUTTOCK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOSIS; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; BUTTOCKS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 81855226141     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318230c2d8     Document Type: Article

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