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Free tissue breast reconstruction in older patients
Steven L A Jeffery1, Roger W Smith
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, West Sussex, United Kingdom. slajeffery@rcsed.ac.uk
Abstract:
We present the case of a 72-year-old woman who underwent mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction using a free transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap, to illustrate that age is not necessarily a barrier to microvascular reconstructive techniques for breast reconstruction.