Skin grafting utilizing a skin of lateral thoracic area for chest wall reconstruction in patient who underwent mastectomy for locally advanced breast cancer.

Cancer shared this article with you from Inoreader Skin grafting utilizing a skin of lateral thoracic area for chest wall reconstruction in patient who underwent mastectomy for locally advanced breast cancer. Via Breast Cancer Authors: Sakamoto N, Nashimoto M, Nakagawa M, Haruyama Y, Koshida Y, Fukuma E Abstract Locally advanced breast cancer sometimes results in a large chest wall defect at mastectomy. When closing the wound horizontally, the skin tension is usually severe in the middle of the wound, while the skin of the lateral area tends to make a dog-ear deformity. Triangle technique is a procedure to prevent the dog ear in which the skin and subcutaneous fat of the axilla are cut into an equilateral triangle. Herein, we present a case of breast cancer who underwent a mastectomy and closed the wound with a skin graft by utilizing the skin removed from lateral thoracic area using triangle technique. An 85-year-old female visited our institution complaining about the mass on her right breast. Preopera... View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.