DIEP flap donor site versus elective abdominoplasty short-term complication rates: A meta-analysis

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 363-369

  Salgarello, Marzia ^a   Tambasco, Damiano ^a   Farallo, Eugenio ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominoplasty; DIEP flap; Seroma; Short term complications

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; LIPECTOMY; META ANALYSIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; SEROMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

HUMANS; LIPECTOMY; MAMMAPLASTY; SEROMA; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 84863725660     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-011-9804-y     Document Type: Article

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