title: Reply: Microvascular lifeboats: a stepwise approach to intraoperative venous congestion in DIEP flap breast reconstruction.
authors: Division of Plastic Surgery, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, 200 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite 465, Los Angeles, Calif. 90095, charlesgalanis@gmail.com.
authors: Charles
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authors: Galanis
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006940:Hyperemia / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016462:Mammaplasty / Q000379:methods*; D061525:Perforator Flap / Q000098:blood supply*
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