Immediate breast reconstruction with a latissimus dorsi flap has no detrimental effects on shoulder motion or postsurgical complications up to 1 year after surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  De Oliveira, Riza Rute ^a   Do Nascimento, Simony Lira ^a   Derchain, Sophie F M ^a   Sarian, Luís Otávio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME; TISSUE ADHESION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER JOINT; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ADHESIONS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877765354     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31828659de     Document Type: Article

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