Chest resurfacing with a reverse abdominoplasty flap for invasive breast cancer recurrence

We present a patient with recurrent breast cancer requiring massive resection of the upper chest. Management included a reverse abdominoplasty flap to resurface the anterior chest wall, with acceptable aesthetic outcomes, and adjuvant chemotherapy. RA is a simple and versatile coverage option in pat...

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Autores principales: di Summa, Pietro G., Schaffer, Clara, Tay, Sherilyn K., Weiler-Mithoff, Eva
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6493283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31069246
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2019.1605293
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description We present a patient with recurrent breast cancer requiring massive resection of the upper chest. Management included a reverse abdominoplasty flap to resurface the anterior chest wall, with acceptable aesthetic outcomes, and adjuvant chemotherapy. RA is a simple and versatile coverage option in patients with high risk of disease recurrence.
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spelling pubmed-64932832019-05-08 Chest resurfacing with a reverse abdominoplasty flap for invasive breast cancer recurrence di Summa, Pietro G. Schaffer, Clara Tay, Sherilyn K. Weiler-Mithoff, Eva Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report We present a patient with recurrent breast cancer requiring massive resection of the upper chest. Management included a reverse abdominoplasty flap to resurface the anterior chest wall, with acceptable aesthetic outcomes, and adjuvant chemotherapy. RA is a simple and versatile coverage option in patients with high risk of disease recurrence. Taylor & Francis 2019-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6493283/ /pubmed/31069246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2019.1605293 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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