Flap surgery is a type of plastic surgery that uses tissues from another part of the body to close open wounds while having its own blood supply. Open wounds are an open invitation for bacteria. Loss ...

A significant advancement in surgical techniques for head and neck reconstruction was achieved in Pune with the successful performance of SCIP free flap surgery. This innovative procedure offers ...

PHILADELPHIA - Doctors in Penn Medicine's Division of Plastic Surgery recently performed their 5,000th free flap reconstructive surgery -- in which tissue is taken from another part of the body and ...

The deep inferior epigastric artery perforator or DIEP flap is a microsurgical technique in which blood vessels, skin and fat are taken from the lower abdomen and used to reconstruct the breast(s).

Visakhapatnam: HCG Pinnacle Cancer centre has successfully operated a 34-year-old breast cancer patient using the free-flap procedure for the first time in the city, the hospital’s Surgical Oncology ...

A new procedure at William Beaumont Army Medical Center is opening doors for patients with severe reconstructive needs which are repercussions from cancer, trauma or other deforming events. The launch ...

Guwahati: Doctors at Dr B Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI) in Guwahati have successfully performed the first free-flap whole breast reconstructive surgery in the northeast, creating a new breast for a ...

“We perform around 600 free flap reconstruction surgeries (using the patient’s skin, fat, muscle, nerve, bone, cartilage, or any combination of these) per year – the highest number for a single cancer ...

Autologous breast reconstruction techniques are classified into different types based on the composition of flaps and the source of the tissue. TRAM refers to the transverse rectus abdominis muscle ...