MMI announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the PRECISE clinical study, a U.S. multi-center trial evaluating ...

The deep inferior epigastric artery perforator or DIEP flap is a microsurgical technique in which blood vessels, skin and fat are taken from the lower abdomen and used to reconstruct the breast(s).

Readers’ orthopedic and fitness questions are answered by doctors at Broward Orthopaedic Specialists in Fort Lauderdale. The following responses are from Dr. John J. Fernandez, a hand and ...

Breast reconstruction after cancer now a reality. In this procedure, the surgeon disconnects the cancer-affected tissue entirely from its blood supply. Visakhapatnam: HCG Pinnacle Cancer centre has ...

PHILADELPHIA - Doctors in Penn Medicine's Division of Plastic Surgery recently performed their 5,000th free flap reconstructive surgery -- in which tissue is taken from another part of the body and ...

D. Scott Lind, M.D., F.A.C.S.; Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.; Wiley W. Souba, M.D., Sc.D., F.A.C.S. Advances in reconstructive techniques have made breast ...

Jammu has performed its 100th microvascular free flap surgery – a complex limb salvage operation on a patient suffering from ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette that includes a therapeutic recommendation. A discussion of the clinical problem and the mechanism of benefit of this form of therapy follows. Major ...