Risk Factors and Blood Flow in the Free Transverse Rectus Abdominis (TRAM) Flap: Smoking and High Flap Weight Impair the Free TRAM Flap Microcirculation

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Annals of Plastic Surgery

• Publication date

  2007-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/SAP.0b013e318030b083PMID 17901724
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