Management of massive mastectomy skin flap necrosis following autologous breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-144

  Patel, Ketan M ^a   Hill, Lauren M ^a   Gatti, Margaret E ^b   Nahabedian, Maurice Y ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

breast reconstruction complications; flap complications; mastectomy flap necrosis; mastectomy skin flap loss

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR; SKIN; SUBCUTANEOUS MASTECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BANDAGES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CICATRIX; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SUBCUTANEOUS; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84863983896     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3182250e23     Document Type: Article

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