Strategies for recognizing and managing intraoperative vascular insufficiency in abdominally based autologous breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Gravvanis, Andreas ^a,b   Delikonstantinou, Irakilis ^a   Karonidis, Athanasios ^a   Tsoutsos, Dimosthenis ^a  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; NOTE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; VASCULARIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MAMMAPLASTY; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 84871745887     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318267d85d     Document Type: Letter

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