title: The split breast flap: Revisited - a medieval or an ideal solution in the selected case?
abstract: In assessing a patient requiring palliative reconstruction of the anterior chest wall, a host of techniques engulf the reconstructive surgeon, who has to evaluate the local situation, the tissue lost, the tissue required and the tissue available. The patient's general condition is usually a major influence on this decision. The split breast flap is an often forgotten, simple means of palliative reconstruction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital,Trail, British Columbia.
authors.forename: Andre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Degreef