Researchers have developed a new technique for head and neck reconstruction using a pedicled latissimus dorsi flap. This approach offers a safer, faster alternative for high-risk patients, achieving a ...

Pedicled LD flap technique offers a safer, faster alternative to free flaps The technique achieved a 100% success rate in 22 high-risk patients It ensures reliable blood flow, covering large and ...

D. Scott Lind, M.D., F.A.C.S.; Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.; Wiley W. Souba, M.D., Sc.D., F.A.C.S. Advances in reconstructive techniques have made breast ...

November 6, 2008 (Chicago, Illinois) — Women who underwent postmastectomy breast reconstruction had higher satisfaction rates with the deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap than other types ...

Sometimes, moving just a few inches can go a long way. Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have developed a promising technique for head and neck reconstruction that shifts the placement of ...

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Flap reconstruction is a surgical procedure plastic surgeons sometimes uses to close wounds of various sizes. During flap reconstruction, your plastic surgeon will take healthy, live tissue from one ...

The surgical management of breast cancer, including breast reconstruction after mastectomy, has changed markedly in recent decades. 1 “Surgical management of breast cancer has evolved from radical ...

If you or someone you know is considering breast reconstruction surgery following a lumpectomy or mastectomy, it’s important to know what options are available. While silicone and saline breast ...

Objectives: To demonstrate the difficulties that can be encountered in diagnosis and treatment of an infected neuropathic shoulder in a paraplegic man. Setting: Spinal cord injury center in Germany.

Sometimes, moving just a few inches can go a long way. Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have developed a promising technique for head and neck reconstruction that shifts the placement of ...