Long-term reconstructive outcomes after expander-implant breast reconstruction with serious infectious or wound-healing complications

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 369-373

  Peled, Anne Warren ^a   Stover, Allison C ^a   Foster, Robert D ^a   McGrath, Mary H ^a   Hwang, E Shelley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

breast reconstruction complications; expander implant reconstruction; immediate breast reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST IMPLANT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIME; TISSUE EXPANDER; TISSUE EXPANSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME; TISSUE EXPANSION; TISSUE EXPANSION DEVICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84858828012     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31823aee67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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