Newswise — When a patient with head and neck cancer has surgery to remove it, they often need reconstructive surgery in the form of a “free flap”, which is skin and tissue taken from a different part ...
A Vietnamese case series shows how the pedicled thoracodorsal artery perforator flap can be individually customized through ...
In 1983, I flew home from college to be with my mother as she woke up from a mastectomy. She opted out of breast reconstruction, choosing to “go flat” instead. When I was diagnosed with breast cancer ...
Newswise — PHILADELPHIA – Doctors in Penn Medicine’s Division of Plastic Surgery recently performed their 5,000th free flap reconstructive surgery – in which tissue is taken from another part of the ...
Patients who choose breast reconstruction after a mastectomy face several important decisions. Patients can choose breast implant surgery or autologous flap reconstruction—also known as tissue-based ...
Reconstructive surgery following resection of cutaneous and soft-tissue malignancies sits at the intersection of oncologic safety, functional preservation, ...