Reconstruction of a large chest wall defect using greater omentum.
A 56-year-old woman was admitted for treatment of a large carcinoma that involved the chest wall. Fourteen years earlier, she had undergone a radical mastectomy, which was followed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The carcinoma was excised and the large anterior chest wall defect reconstructed using Marlex mesh, an omental pedicle flap, and a split-thickness skin graft.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009852:Omentum / Q000637:transplantation*; D013526:Surgical Mesh; D013903:Thoracic Surgery; D013909:Thorax / Q000601:surgery*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous