Abstract

BENITO DUQUE, P.; DE JUAN HUELVES, A.; CANO ROSAS, M.  and  ELENA SORANDO, E.. Twelve days postoperative necrosis of a DIEP flap. Cir. plást. iberolatinoam. [online]. 2008, vol.34, n.2, pp.145-150. ISSN 1989-2055.

We present an unusual complication suffered by a patient who received a DIEP flap for breast reconstruction and suffered necrosis 12 days after surgery, without existing an objective reason. Patient had been submitted to radiotherapy, that it´s a known reason for delaying in neovascularización of the flap, so we consider that in this patients, measures directed to protect the flap must be extended in time, if compared with those patients without radiotherapy.

Keywords : Mammary reconstruction; DIEP-flap; Flap failure.

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