title: Superior gluteal artery perforator free flap for breast reconstruction.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a new method of breast reconstruction utilizing skin and fat from the buttock without muscle sacrifice. Cadaver dissections were done to study the musculocutaneous perforators of the superior gluteal artery and vein. Eleven breasts were reconstructed successfully with skin/fat flaps based on the superior gluteal artery with its proximal perforators. Long flap vascular pedicles allow the internal mammary or thoracodorsal vessels to be used as recipient vessels. This new technique has several advantages over the previously described gluteus maximus myocutaneous flaps, including long vascular pedicle and no muscle sacrifice.
authors.affiliation: Section of Plastic Surgery, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, USA.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tucker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018427:Breast Implants; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D002081:Buttocks; D005260:Female; D005348:Fibrocystic Breast Disease / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D016462:Mammaplasty / Q000379:methods*; D015411:Mastectomy, Modified Radical; D008875:Middle Aged; D012086:Reoperation; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000379:methods*