Complications and morbidity following breast reconstruction - A review of 16,063 cases from the 2005-2010 NSQIP datasets

Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 104-114

  Fischer, John P ^a   Nelson, Jonas A ^a   Au, Alexander ^b   Ct III, Tuggle ^b   Serletti, Joseph M ^a   Wu, Liza C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artery; Breast reconstruction; Complication; Latissimus dorsi flap; Microvascular; Perforator; Plastic surgery

Indexed keywords

AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAST IMPLANT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE EXPANSION; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAST IMPLANTS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OPERATIVE TIME; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE EXPANSION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84896347404     PISSN: 2000656X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/2000656X.2013.819003     Document Type: Review

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