Immediate breast reconstruction and lymphedema incidence

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Crosby, Melissa A ^a   Card, Annika ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Lindstrom, Wayne A ^a   Chang, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860753391     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31824a2ab1     Document Type: Review

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