title: Recycling spare tissues: splitting a bipedicled TRAM flap for reconstruction of the contralateral breast.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, European Institute of Oncology (EIO), Milan, Italy. mario.rietjens@ieo.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rietjens
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Lorenzi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Veronesi
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Youssef
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Petit
mesh_terms: D000009:Abdominal Muscles / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D018270:Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016462:Mammaplasty / Q000379:methods*; D015410:Mastectomy, Extended Radical; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D013524:Surgical Flaps