Rectus abdominis myocutaneous flaps for neovaginal reconstruction after radical pelvic surgery

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 542-548

  Soper, J T ^a   Havrilesky, L J ^a   Secord, A A ^a   Berchuck, A ^a   Clarke Pearson, D L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Neovagina; Pelvic reconstruction; Rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap; Vaginal reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COITUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DONOR; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OVARY CANCER; PELVIS ABSCESS; PELVIS EXENTERATION; PELVIS SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STENOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA CANCER; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; VAGINA STENOSIS; VAGINA STRICTURE; VULVA CANCER; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PELVIC EXENTERATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VAGINA;

EID: 18944375249     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2005.15322.x     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Soper JT. Pelvic exenteration and pelvic reconstruction. In: Nichols DH, Clarke-Pearson DL, eds. Gynecologic, obstetric and related surgery, 2nd edn. St. Louis: Mosby, 2000:723-37.
2. Cain JM, Diamond A, Tamimi HK, Greer BE, Figge DC: The morbidity and benefits of concurrent gracilis graft and pelvic exenteration. Obstet Gynecol 1989;160:1095-101.
3. Soper JT, Berchuck A, Creasman WT, Clarke-Pearson DL. Pelvic exenteration. Factors associated with major surgical morbidity. Gynecol Oncol 1989;35:93-8.
4. Jurado M, Bazen JM, Elejabeitia S, Paloma V, Martinez-Monge R, Alcazar JL. Primary vaginal and pelvic reconstruction at the time of pelvic exenteration: a study of morbidity. Gynecol Oncol 2000;77:293-7.
5. Taylor GI, Corlett RJ, Boyd JB. The versatile deep inferior epigastric (inferior rectus abdominis) flap. Br J Plast Surg 1984;37:330-50.
6. McGraw J, Kemp G, Given F, Horton C. Correction of high pelvic defects with the inferiorly-based rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap. Genitourin Surg 1988;15:449-54.
7. Pursell SH, Day RG Jr, Tobin GR. Distally based rectus abdominis flap for reconstruction in radical gynecologic procedures. Gynecol Oncol 1990;37:234-8.
8. Carlson JW, Carter JR, Saltzman AK, Carson LF, Fowler JM, Twiggs LB. Gynecologic reconstruction with a rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap: an update. Gynecol Oncol 1996;61:364-8.
9. Smith HO, Genesen ML, Runowicz CD, Goldberg GL. The rectus abdominis flap: modifications, complications and sexual function. Cancer 1998;83:510-20.
10. Bakx R, Van Lanschot JJB, Zoetmulder FAN. Inferiorly based rectus abdominis flaps in surgical oncology: indications, technique and experience in 37 patients. J Surg Oncol 2004;85:93-7.
11. Casey WJ III, Tran NV, Petty PM, Stulak JM, Woods JE. A comparison of 99 consecutive vaginal reconstructions: an outcome study. Ann Plast Surg 2004;52:27-30.
12. Soper JT, Rodriguez G, Berchuck A, Clarke-Pearson DL. Long and short gracilis myocutaneous flaps for vulvovaginal reconstruction after radical pelvic surgery: comparison of flap-specific complications. Gynecol Oncol 1995;56:271-5.