DIEP flap surgery is an option for patients who have had a mastectomy, in which one or both breasts are removed because of breast cancer or to prevent breast cancer. The primary benefit of a DIEP flap ...

(In DIEP flap surgery reconstruction, skin, fat and blood vessels from the patient's abdominal area are used to rebuild breasts.) During one of the DIEP cases, while the patient was asleep on the ...

Before having this surgery or any other surgery, you may want to see another surgeon to get a second opinion. Tissue flap surgery is a way to rebuild the shape of a breast using skin, fat, and ...

Potter explained that she was performing a bilateral DIEP flap surgery—a complex, life-changing procedure for breast cancer patients—when she was interrupted by a call from UnitedHealthcare.

Published results showed medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction combined with thin flap trochleoplasty may yield low ...

The flap is sutured in place ... and Wakefield, A. R. Surgery of Repair as Applied to Hand Injuries: Foreword by Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. Second edition. 284 pp. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins ...

A DIEP flap surgery reconstruction is a type of abdominal wall flap procedure. The DIEP — or deep inferior epigastric perforator — flap is named for the blood vessel that runs through the ...

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THE country’s leading medical institution, the Makati Medical Center (MakatiMed, has reached another milestone with the successful performance of its first facial reanimation surgery, a ...