Combining a Chest Wall Perforator Flap and Bioabsorbable Implant to Facilitate Oncoplastic Breast-conserving Surgery

ABSTRACT: Summary: Oncoplastic breast conservation is classically divided into two approaches: volume displacement and volume replacement (VR). These approaches are important to use when more than 20% of the breast is removed to avoid deformity. Smaller, nonptotic breasts require VR strategies from flaps based off of local chest wall perforators. When larger volumes are required, a flap based off the thoracodorsal artery can be used. Although this flap can replace larger volumes, it usually requires a position change with increased operative time, patient morbidity, and longer recovery while also exhausting a major reconstructive modality. In an effort to avoid this increased operative complexity, we have found that combining a local chest wall perforator flap and bioabsorbable implant, which has be

SUBMITTER: Schwartz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10132726 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature