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DIEP flap breast reconstruction preserving a lumbar peritoneal shunt tube
Kentarou Ueki1, Katsuhiro Yoshikawa2, Tatsuki Enoshiri1
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery
|May 5, 2017
Abstract:
We herein report a case of immediate deep inferior epigastric perforator flap (DIEP flap) breast reconstruction surgery in a 50-year-old female patient with a lumbar peritoneal shunt tube. We performed DIEP flap reconstruction in the patient by withdrawing and subsequently reinserting the abdominal side of an implanted shunt tube.
