Donor-site lymphatic function after microvascular lymph node transfer

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1246-1253

  Viitanen, Tiina P ^a   Mäki, Maija T ^a   Seppänen, Marko P ^a   Suominen, Erkki A ^a   Saaristo, Anne M ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DONOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GROIN; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANT DONOR SITE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84870911577     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31826d1682     Document Type: Article

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