Interpositional Lateral Thoracic Vein Graft for DIEP Flap Salvage in Setting of Superficial Venous System Dominance

Interpositional Lateral Thoracic Vein Graft for DIEP Flap Salvage in Setting of Superficial Venous System Dominance

Comparison of lateral thoracic random flap and parascapular random flap for the treatment of severe hidradenitis suppurativa

Background and Aim: This study is executed to compare two common reconstructive surgeries in suppurative hidradenitis. Methods: Patients with severe supporutive hidradenitis who had operations to excise their axillary lesions and then treated with two standard surgical repair techniques (lateral thoracic flap vs parascapular pedicle flap) were evaluated in a retrospective cohort study. Assessm...

Omental Flap for Thoracic Aortic Graft Infection

Superficial Inferior Epigastric Artery Flap Salvage Technique Using Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery Graft

Superficial inferior epigastric artery (SIEA) flap salvage remains challenging, particularly in cases of arterial insufficiency due to vessel spasm, pedicle kinking, or thrombosis. The already small, short SIEA pedicle, in addition to its inherent tendency toward spasm, renders the SIEA flap more difficult to manage when anastomotic revision is required. Furthermore, arterial thrombosis will ca...

Saved by De-epithelialization: DIEP Flap Dermal Skin Regeneration Salvage after Mastectomy Skin Flap Loss

BACKGROUND Wound re-epithelialization has been traditionally described to occur from the dermal appendages of the wound edges. As such, the role of the dermal wound bed in re-epithelialization has been questioned. In a patient undergoing breast reconstruction with free tissue transfer, the buried portions of the free flap skin paddle could be either de-epithelialized or deskinned. In case of ma...