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Letter to the editor: applications of rib sparing technique in internal mammary vessels exposure of abdominal free flap breast reconstructions: a 12-year single-center experience of 215 cases

   
@article{GS34087,
	author = {Stavros Samaras and Yoshie Sasaki and Charles Malata},
	title = {Letter to the editor: applications of rib sparing technique in internal mammary vessels exposure of abdominal free flap breast reconstructions: a 12-year single-center experience of 215 cases},
	journal = {Gland Surgery},
	volume = {9},
	number = {2},
	year = {2020},
	keywords = {},
	abstract = {We read with great interest the article by Zhang and colleagues on the applications of rib sparing technique in internal mammary vessel (IMV) exposure for microvascular breast reconstruction (1). They report a retrospective single institutional study of 215 women who underwent 218 abdominal free flap breast reconstructions, 70 of them using rib-preserving exposure of the IMVs. They compared these with 102 flaps in which the costal cartilage was sacrificed. Their findings that rib sparing IMV exposure is a safe technique with a shorter surgery and hospital stay as well as lower complication rate compared to rib-sacrifice are consistent with our results from a study of the pertinent anatomy of the IMVs during total rib-sparing free flap breast reconstruction (2). Our comments are based on a prospectively collected database of such reconstructions performed by a single surgeon (CMM) using the total rib preservation technique of IMV exposure (3,4).},
	issn = {2227-8575},	url = {https://gs.amegroups.org/article/view/34087}
}