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Additional venous anastomoses to safeguard DIEP flaps

8 October 2014 | | Breast Surgery | DIEP flap venous congestion, Flap salvage, Microsurgery, Venous augmentation

That DIEP flaps can be troublesome is not news and many descriptions exist trying to circumvent these problems. The most common problem is venous congestion in the flap and this paper presents an ingenious method of anticipating and forestalling such...