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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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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.
Three patients with soft tissue degloving injuries and bone fracture due to motor vehicle accidents underwent a latissimus dorsi flap reconstruction.
 
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