Partial necrosis of the transferred flap may create firm areas ... The flap is tunneled subcutaneously to the mastectomy defect ( b). The latissimus dorsi muscle is sutured to the greater pectoral ...

A latissimus dorsi flap is a surgical procedure that uses part of an upper back muscle to reconstruct the shape of the breast. This surgery is typically done after a mastectomy (surgical breast ...

You may have already had a mastectomy ... flap reconstruction: You have health conditions that do not make it safe to have a longer surgery It’s a longer surgery It takes longer to recover You smoke ...

"I will essentially have a single mastectomy on one side. I will be completely flat." Shearer said that she hopes to undergo a Latissimus dorsi flap surgery in November. The procedure involves ...

For most patients, stretching of the soft-tissue mastectomy envelope is required ... after surgery due to poor blood supply) or partial flap loss occurred in 7% of patients in this series and ...