A 10-year review of breast reconstruction in a university-based public hospital

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 376-379

  Levine, Steven M ^a   Levine, Anne ^a   Raghubir, Javita ^a   Levine, Jamie P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84866607171     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31824b26d2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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