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Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
CASE REPORT
Inferior dermal flap in breast reconstruction with tissue expanders
  1. Sevgi Kurt Yazar1,
  2. Merdan Serin1,
  3. Fatih Irmak2,
  4. Sefika Aksoy3
  1. 1Plastic Surgery, Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
  2. 2Plastic Surgery, Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Egitim ve Arastirma Hastanesi, Istanbul, Turkey
  3. 3General Surgery, Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
  1. Correspondence to Dr Merdan Serin, merdanserin{at}gmail.com

Summary

A surgical case, in which inferior dermal flap was used to cover a tissue expander for breast reconstruction, is reported. In spite of the skin necrosis on the seventh postoperative day, flap coverage successfully protected the tissue expander from exposition.

  • Breast Cancer
  • Breast Surgery

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221330

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors SKY has performed the surgery. MS contributed to the writing and planning of the script. FI and SA contributed in the surgical planning of the case.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.