Propensity-matched, longitudinal outcomes analysis of complications and cost: Comparing abdominal free flaps and implant-based breast reconstruction

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 303-312

  Fischer, John P ^a   Wes, Ari M ^a   Nelson, Jonas A ^a   Basta, Marten ^a   Rohrbach, Jeffrey I ^a   Wu, Liza C ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a   Kovach, Stephen J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Abbreviations and Acronyms; BMI; body mass index; E I; expander implant; FF; free tissue; TRAM; transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST IMPLANT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CELLULITIS; COMORBIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVICE INFECTION; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HEMATOMA; HERNIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RUPTURE; SEROMA; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84904641870     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2014.02.028     Document Type: Article

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