Rietjens M, De Lorenzi F, Veronesi P, Youssef O, Petit J Y
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, European Institute of Oncology (EIO), Milan, Italy.
Br J Plast Surg. 2003 Oct;56(7):715-7. doi: 10.1016/s0007-1226(03)00223-6.
A new method of bipedicled transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap splitting to reconstruct the contralateral breast 1 year after the first breast reconstruction is presented. This technique can be useful in cases of large salvage mastectomy for asynchronous breast cancers allowing a bilateral thoracic closure.
