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latissimus dorsi flap

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latissimus dorsi flap
Surgery A tissue flap consisting of skin, tissue, blood vessels, and the latissimus dorsi
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Surgery Mastectomy is usually the mainstay of surgical treatment in stage 3 disease but the extent of surgery thought appropriate may vary from surgeon to surgeon, with some having a more conservative approach and others advocating resection of extensive disease with fascia and muscle and a latissimus dorsi flap.
Locally advanced breast cancer refers to clinical stage 3 disease by Murray, Elizabeth / CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
Usually BCS does not involve resection of skin except for quadrantectomy and a latissimus dorsi flap is ideally suited to reconstruction following quadrantic resection of a tumour in the upper outer quadrant in which the parenchyma together with a narrow radial ellipse of skin has been removed.
Volume replacement and displacement techniques in oncoplastic surgery by Benson, John R.; Absar, M. Shamim / Advances in Breast Cancer
Preventing seroma in the latissimus dorsi flap donor site.
Advantages of perforator flaps in reconstruction of complex defects ... by Metzinger, Stephen Eric / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
 
 
 
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