Are bilateral TRAM flaps as good as bilateral DIEP Flaps?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 590-591

  Blondeel, Phillip N ^a   Neligan, Peter ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PLASTIC SURGERY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 80051491988     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31821eeed0     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Blondeel N, Vanderstraeten GG, Monstrey SJ, et al. The donor site morbidity of free DIEP flaps and free TRAM flaps for breast reconstruction. Br J Plast Surg. 1997;50:322-330. (Pubitemid 27312141)
2. Blondeel N, Boeckx WD, Vanderstraeten GG, et al. The fate of the oblique abdominal muscles after free TRAM flap surgery. Br J Plast Surg. 1997;50:315-321. (Pubitemid 27312140)
3. Blondeel PN, Arnstein M, Verstraete K, et al. Venous congestion and blood flow in free transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous and deep inferior epigastric perforator flaps. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2000;106:1295-1299.