title: Flaps, slings, and other things: CT after reconstructive surgery--expected changes and detection of complications.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article will discuss the typical CT appearance of myocutaneous surgically placed flaps as well as some frequently encountered complications of this surgery. We will discuss the appearance of relatively new, but increasingly encountered, nonnative materials used in reconstructive surgery, such as spacers, bulking agents, hemostatic agents, and other reconstructive materials.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Oncologic surgery often requires reconstruction using myocutaneous flaps. Therefore, an understanding of the type of reconstruction performed is important for the accuracy of postoperative radiologic interpretation to recognize presence of a flap to avoid misdiagnosis of tumor recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA 92868, USA. clall@uci.edu
authors.forename: Chandana
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lall
authors.forename: Temel A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Tirkes
authors.forename: Aashish A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Ramit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lamba
authors.forename: Sadhna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: S Gregory
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Jennings
authors.forename: Kumaresan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sandrasegaran
mesh_terms: D003094:Collagen; D006490:Hemostatics; D006801:Humans; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D006490:Hemostatics; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene; D003094:Collagen