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Microsurgical breast
reconstruction for nipple-sparing mastectomy
  
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery February
2013
Nipple Sparing Mastectomy and Immediate Free-Flap Reconstruction in the Large Ptotic Breast
Annals of Plastic Surgery October 2012
Breast Reconstruction with the Profunda Artery
Perforator Flap
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery January 2012
Anatomic Imaging of Gluteal Perforator Flaps without Ionizing Radiation: Seeing Is Believing with Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery January 2010
Anatomic Imaging of Abdominal Perforator Flaps without Ionizing Radiation: Seeing Is Believing with Magnetic Resonance Imaging Angiography
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery January 2010
Perforator Flaps: Recent Experience, Current Trends, and Future Directions Based on 3974
Microsurgical Breast Reconstructions
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery September 2009
Simultaneous Bilateral Breast Reconstruction With In-the-Crease Inferior Gluteal Artery Perforator Flaps
Annals of Plastic Surgery September 2009
Transplantation in Identical Twins: Another Option for Breast Reconstruction
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery October
2008
Breast Reconstruction with Perforator Flaps
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery July
2007
The In-The-Crease Inferior Gluteal Artery Perforator Flap for Breast Reconstruction
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery August 2006
Microvascular Breast Reconstruction Using Buttock Tissue: The Preferred Scar Location and Shape
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery September
2005
Autologous Breast Reconstruction Using the Superficial Inferior Epigastric Artery Flap Revisited
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery September
2005
Algorithm for Autologous Breast Reconstruction for Partial Mastectomy Defects
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery September
2005
Cutting Edge Recovery - One Woman's Journey Mainely Newspapers, Inc. March
2005
Simultaneous bilateral breast reconstruction with superior gluteal artery perforator (SGAP) flaps
Annals of Plastic Surgery October
2004
A 10-Year Retrospective Review of 758 DIEP Flaps for Breast Reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery April
2004
Technique For Brachioplasty
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery March
2004
Bilateral Breast Reconstruction with the Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator (DIEP) Flap
Annals of Plastic Surgery March
2004
Perforator Flaps in Breast Reconstruction

 The Surgical Technologist March
2004
Breast Reconstruction With Gluteal Artery Perforator (GAP) Flaps
Annals of Plastic Surgery February 2004
The "Gent" Concensus on Perforator Flap Terminology: Preliminary Definitions
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
October
2003
Autogenous Augmentation Mammaplasty with Microsurgical Tissue Transfer
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
July
2003
Anterolateral Thigh Flap for Breast Reconstruction: Case Reports Review
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery
Early
2003
Autogenous Breast Reconstruction With the Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap
Clinics In
Plastic Surgery
July
2003
Preforator Flaps - The History of Evolution
Handchirurgie Mikrochirurgie Plastische Chirurgie
July
2002
Comparative Examination of Complaints of Patients with Breast Cancer with and Without Silicone Implants
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Boil
2002
Can Specific Preoperative Counceling Increase the Likelihood a Woman Will Choose Postmastectomy Breast Reconstruction?

Am J Surg
2001
Postoperative Morphine Requirements of Free TRAM and DIEP Flaps
Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly
2001
Comparison of the Costs of DIEP and TRAM Flaps

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
March
2001
Are Perforator Flaps Truly More Cost-Effective Than TRAM Flaps?
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
March
2001

Postoperative Morphine Requirements of Free TRAM and DIEP Flaps
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
February
2001
FDA Breast Implant Information
Ruling on saline-filled breast implants
FDA
July
2000

Breast-Rebuilding procedure is less painful, less invasive
The Associated Press
March 2000

Postoperative Adjuvant Irradiation: Effects on Tranverse Rectus Abdominis Muscle Flap Breast Reconstruction
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
August 2000

A Cost Based Comparison between Perforator Flaps and TRAM Flaps for Breast Reconstruction
Robert J. Allen, M.D.
2000
Perforator Flaps in Breast Reconstruction - contains before
and after pictures.
Lippincott
Raven
1999
Staged Breast Reconstruction with Saline-Filled Implants in the Irradiated Breast: Recent Trends and Therapeutic Implications
Georgetown University Medical Center
Mar. 1999

Effect of Obesity on Flap and Donor-Site Complications in Free Transverse Rectus Abdominis Myocutaneous Flap Breast Reconstruction
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
May
1999

Ideas and Resources for Recovery Reconstruction Refined
MAMM
June
1999

Abdominal Wall Competence
Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly
Early
1998
A Comparison of Pedicled and Free TRAM Flaps for Breast Reconstruction in a Single Institution
David L. Larson, M.D. Department of Plastic Surgery
Medical College of Wisconsin
August 1998
The Superior Gluteal Artery Perforator Flap
Clinics
April 1998
The fate of the oblique abdominal muscles after free TRAM flap surgery
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
March 1997
The donor site morbidity of free DIEP flaps and free TRAM flaps for breast reconstruction
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
March 1997
Free Flap Breast Reconstruction:
The LSU Experience (1984-1996)
Journal of the
Louisiana State
Medical Society
October
1997
Challenge in Breast Cancer Treatment: Is Prophylactic Mastectomy Indicated?
Southern Medical Journal
October
1997
Thoracodorsal Artery Perforator Flap for Reconstruction
Southern Medical Journal
October
1996
Abdominal Donor Site Morbidity Associated With the Bilateral Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap For Breast Reconstruction
Southern Medical Journal
October
1996
The Internal Mammary Artery and Vein as a Recipient Site for Free-Flap Breast Reconstruction: A Report of 110 Consecutive Cases
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
September
1996
Discussion to "The Internal Mammary Artery and Vein as a Recipient Site for Free-Flap Breast Reconstruction: A Report of 110 Consecutive Cases"
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
September
1996
Surgeon Perfects New Method for Reconstruction
The
Common Thread
September
1995
Treatment of Poland's Breast Deformity Using a Superior Gluteal Artery Perforator Flap
Southern Medical Journal
October
1995
Superior Gluteal Artery Perforator Free Flap for Breast Reconstruction
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
June 1995
Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap for Breast Reconstruction
Annals of
Plastic
Surgery
Jan. 1994
Are Perforator Flaps Truly More Cost Effective The TRAM Flaps? How Good Is the Evidence?
Carolyn L. Kerrigan, M.D. and E. Dale Collins, M.D
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Dealing with Breast Cancer
Libby Wiersema
N/A
Living fully after Breast Cancer
Libby Wiersema
N/A
Breast Rehab Program
Memorial Medical Center
N/A

 
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