Do pre-operative abdominal exercises prevent post-operative donor site complications for women undergoing DIEP flap breast reconstruction? A two-centre, prospective randomised controlled trial
- 1 October 2003
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Plastic Surgery
- Vol. 56 (7), 674-683
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0007-1226(03)00362-x
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