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 London quality improvement project found that starting tube feeding on the same day as head and neck flap surgery halved ...

Breast reconstruction has advanced significantly over the last decade, utilising innovative techniques like autologous tissue ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Vietnamese case series shows how the pedicled thoracodorsal artery perforator flap can be individually customized through ...