A nationwide analysis of the relationship between hospital volume and outcome for autologous breast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Albornoz, Claudia R ^a   Cordeiro, Peter G ^a   Hishon, Lauren ^a   Mehrara, Babak J ^a   Pusic, Andrea L ^a   McCarthy, Colleen M ^a   Disa, Joseph J ^a   Matros, Evan ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; STATISTICS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VASCULARIZATION; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84881473522     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31829586c1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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