Article Text
Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
CASE REPORT
Inferior dermal flap in breast reconstruction with tissue expanders
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
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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.