2006
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200609151-00117
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P20: Comparison of Fasciotomy Wound Closures Using Traditional Dressing Changes and the Vacuum-Assisted Closure Device

Abstract: bACKGROUND: Lower abdominal tissue remains the gold standard for autologous tissue breast reconstruction. Lower abdominal flaps have evolved to reduce donor site morbidity, and have progressed from harvesting the entire rectus abdominis muscle (pedicled TRAM flap), to excising only a portion of muscle (free ms-TRAM flap), to only incising the muscle and fascia (DIEP flap), to using an alternative blood supply so that the rectus abdominis muscle and fascia are neither excised nor incised (SIEA flap).PURPOSe: Th… Show more

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“…3 a – c After lower pectoral muscle insertion and upper capsuloplasty, the patient is advised to avoid muscular activity for 3 weeks. A strip is fitted on the upper pole to prevent the implant from moving upward again [3, 8]
Fig. 4 a Implant located in the upper pole without pectoral release.
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Section: High Location Of the Implantmentioning
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“…3 a – c After lower pectoral muscle insertion and upper capsuloplasty, the patient is advised to avoid muscular activity for 3 weeks. A strip is fitted on the upper pole to prevent the implant from moving upward again [3, 8]
Fig. 4 a Implant located in the upper pole without pectoral release.
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Section: High Location Of the Implantmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This involves performing a capsulectomy with excision of part of the capsule, which is anchored with permanent suture from the costal periosteum as far as the capsule, thus raising the groove (Fig. 6a), or it involves performing the “hammock technique” [3, 8] (Fig. 6b).
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Section: Descent Of the Submammary Foldmentioning
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