Microvascular free flap breast reconstruction.
As in other areas of reconstruction, microvascular free flaps have earned a definite role in certain breast reconstructions difficult to accomplish with conventional techniques. With improvements in techniques and survival rates, the advantages of such reconstructions have become increasingly more attractive to the patient and the surgeon.
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