Analysis of complications and patient satisfaction in pedicled transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous and deep inferior epigastric perforator flap breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-23

  Momoh, Adeyiza O ^a   Colakoglu, Salih ^a   Westvik, Tormod S ^a   Curtis, Michael S ^b   Yueh, Janet H ^a   De Blacam, Catherine ^a   Tobias, Adam M ^a   Lee, Bernard T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

breast reconstruction; complications; DIEP; patient satisfaction; pedicled TRAM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 84862837260     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e318221b578     Document Type: Article

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