Discussion: Preoperative and postoperative nipple-areola sensibility in patients undergoing reduction mammaplasty

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 814-818

  Gonzalez, Federico ^a   Brown, Forst E ^a   Gold, Mark E ^a   Walton, Robert L ^a   Shafer, Beverly ^a   Mackinnon, Susan E ^a,b  

^a Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Washington University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST HYPERTROPHY; BREAST REDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMAPLASTY; NIPPLES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH;

EID: 84937358918     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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