When a breast cancer patient requires a mastectomy, cancer surgeons and reconstructive plastic surgeons at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WUSM now perform a technique called ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After abdominal flap breast reconstruction, researchers found the overall hernia repair rate within 3 years was ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: In 2000 (at age 53), I had a mastectomy with a TRAM flap ...

February 26, 2016 - In women undergoing breast reconstruction using their own (autologous) tissue, newer "muscle-sparing" abdominal flaps can reduce complications while improving some aspects of ...

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 ...

Autologous breast reconstruction techniques are classified into different types based on the composition of flaps and the source of the tissue. TRAM refers to the transverse rectus abdominis muscle ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Postoperative pain levels, inflammation and use of narcotics were reduced as a result of using pulsed ...

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 ...

In women undergoing breast reconstruction using their own (autologous) tissue, newer 'muscle-sparing' abdominal flaps can reduce complications while improving some aspects of quality of life, reports ...