Six steps for a successful aesthetic free flap reconstruction after minimally invasive mastectomy: a retrospective case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Breast cancer treatment has evolved to the modern skin-sparing mastectomy and nipple-sparing mastectomy. To better perform these surgeries, minimally invasive techniques using the endoscope, or Da Vinci Robotic Surgery platform have been developed. The deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap is the gold standard in breast reconstruction, but it is still not commonly performed after minimally invasive mastectomy due technical difficulty. Here the authors introduced six key steps to a successful aesthetic autologous free flap reconstruction in in minimally invasive mastectomies.

Methods

There are six main steps to our technique: placement of mastectomy incision, precise flap design after angiography studies, trial of shaping, transcutaneous medial suture, foo

SUBMITTER: Wong AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10871604 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature