"Pedicle flap" means the flap of tissue from the back or belly is moved to the chest without cutting its original blood supply. The tissue is pulled under the skin up to the chest area and ...

Free-flap reconstruction options are utilized primarily when other autologous and implant reconstruction options are not available, do not provide sufficient tissue volume, or have failed.

The placement of the tissue expander, which helps maintain the formation ... Accessed January 23, 2019. “DIEP Flap, SIEA Flap, TRAM Free Flap.” BreastReconstruction.org. Accessed January 23, 2019.

The tissue expander is gradually inflated with ... breast reconstruction after modified radical mastectomy using free TRAM flap with microvascular anastomosis of inferior epigastric vessels ...

“A lot of women, after they’ve had children, have a little bit of extra tummy tissue and they enjoy having ... option to to have a breast put on a free flap like that– that is tremendous ...