A systematic approach to the tram flap breast reconstruction
✍ Scribed by Américo Marques; Elizabeth Brenda; Marco Túlio J. Amarante; Walter Rocival Gomes
- Book ID
- 115851593
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 665 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0011-393X
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Skin blood flow in the free TRAM flap has been shown to be superior to that in the pedicled TRAM flap, and in 1990 the free TRAM flap was adopted as the procedure of choice for breast reconstructions. The findings in the first 50 patients whose breasts were reconstructed with free microvascular TRAM
To improve the blood supply of the pedicled flap we have performed an additional microvascular augmentation to this type of breast reconstruction procedure since 1991. The ipsilateral deep inferior epigastric pedicle is anastomosed to the internal mammary artery and vein (IMAV supercharge). In 19 of