Late venous thrombosis in free flap breast reconstruction: Strategies for salvage after this real entity

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Nelson, Jonas A ^a   Kim, Elizabeth M ^a   Eftakhari, Kian ^a   Low, David W ^a   Kovach, 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

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE-TYPE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84555190368     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182361f7f     Document Type: Article

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