The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 51, 133-135, Copyright © 1991 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Rectus abdominis muscle flap with microvascular anastomoses for repair of recurrent sarcoma
T Waris, O Kaarela, H Teerikangas and J Nissinen
Division of Plastic Surgery, Oulu University Central Hospital, Finland.
After radical resection of a recurrent leiomyosarcoma, the thoracic wall
was stabilized with a Gore-Tex graft. The skin and soft tissue defect was
repaired with a large rectus abdominis flap in which the circulation was
secured by end-to-end microvascular anastomosis of the inferior epigastric
artery to the internal mammary artery, which had to be cut during tumor
removal.