Breast reconstruction modality outcome study: A comparison of expander/implants and free flaps in select patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 928-934

  Fischer, John P ^a   Nelson, Jonas A ^a   Cleveland, Emily ^a   Sieber, Brady ^a   Rohrbach, Jeff I ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a   Kanchwala, Suhail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST IMPLANT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TISSUE EXPANDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TISSUE EXPANSION DEVICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877757030     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182865977     Document Type: Article

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