Dushyant Jaiswal, Firoz Borle, Saumya Mathews, Mayur Mantri, Vineet Kumar, Ameya Bindu, Prabha Yadav, Vinay Kant Shankhdhar
Background The deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap is a workhorse flap for breast reconstruction. Its use for head and neck (HN) reconstruction is rare. Abdomen provides a donor site abundant in skin and subcutaneous tissue, amenable to primary closure; sizeable, robust, and consistent perforators and a long, sizeable pedicle for comfortable microvascular anastomosis. Its offers all the donor variables needed for HN reconstruction in abundance. Methods It is a quasiexperimental design study...
February 2024: Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery: Official Publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India