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CASE REPORT
Pelvic and buttock hypoplasia reconstructed with anatomical breast implants
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  1. Felicity Page1,
  2. Ayad Harb2,
  3. Garth Titley2
  1. 1 Department of Plastic Surgery, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
  2. 2 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to Felicity Page, felicitypage{at}doctors.org.uk

Summary

Radiation therapy is used in the management of a number of childhood cancers and can have significant effects on skeletal growth. We present the case of a 35-year-old woman who developed a hypoplastic pelvis and buttocks following radiotherapy for rhabdomyosarcoma of the vagina at the age of 2. At the age of 25, the patient underwent bilateral buttock augmentation with a two-stage reconstruction using tissue expansion followed by definitive augmentation with anatomical breast implant insertion. The patient continues to have a satisfactory outcome 10 years following reconstruction, having undergone a single uplift procedure and exchange of implants through the original incision 9 years postoperatively. This case represents a unique reconstructive challenge to plastic surgeons and was successfully managed with a novel approach.

  • plastic and reconstructive surgery
  • cancer intervention
  • paediatric oncology

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221586

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    • Contributors All authors: involved in the development, execution and editing of the work; have seen and agree to the submitted version of the case report, and bear responsibility for it. FP: contributed to the planning, conduct and write up of the case report. AH: contributed to the planning and design of the article, and the conduct and write up of the article. GT: also contributed to the conception and design, acquisition of the data and write up of the case report.

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