Buried flap reconstruction after nipple-sparing mastectomy: Advancing toward single-stage breast reconstruction. Plastic and reconstructive surgery, Oct 2013, Vol. 132(4), p.4893-497e.
Levine, S.M., et al.
http://journals.lww.com/plasreconsurg/Abstract/2013/10000/Buried_Flap_Reconstruction_after_Nipple_Sparing.3.aspx
Recent evolutions of oncologic breast surgery and reconstruction now allow surgeons to offer the appropriate patients a single-stage, autologous tissue reconstruction with the least donor-site morbidity. The authors present their series of buried free flaps in nipple-sparing mastectomies as proof of concept, and to explore indications, techniques, and early outcomes from their series.
