Sentence examples for chest wall reconstruction from inspiring English sources
Background/Purpose: This study was aimed at applying fetal tissue engineering to chest wall reconstruction.
Twelve patients who underwent resection of locally advanced breast cancer had immediate chest wall reconstruction with the extended V-Y latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap.
Elements of novelty in the clinical practice are represented by the introduction of the principles of video-assisted thoracic surgery to resect chest wall tumors and the increasingly frequent resort to either new materials or revised concepts of time-honored ones for chest wall reconstruction.
Total mastectomy without axillary lymph node resection and chest wall reconstruction using a full-thickness mesh skin graft was performed.
On hospital day 5, the patient was brought to the operating room for stabilization of his flail chest and chest wall reconstruction.
It should be noted that chest wall invasion (primary stage T3) does not preclude surgical resection, because the surgeon may perform en bloc resection and chest wall reconstruction.
Extensive chest wall defect reconstruction remains a challenging problem for surgeons.
Surveillance of the chest wall and/or the reconstructed breast in patients receiving either mastectomy alone, or mastectomy with breast reconstruction and implants, varies according to different health care systems and local protocols [ 16– 16].
In 1972, McLean and Buncke [ 18] described the omentum free flap, and in 1976, Arnold and Jurkiewicz [ 19] used the pedicled omentum in the reconstruction of the chest wall, including two patients with Halsted mastectomy by a one-stage reconstruction using transposed omentum to cover a silastic gel implant and to support an overlying skin graft.
The supraclavicular region and chest wall are the preferred choices for reconstruction.
Three-dimensional printing with biocompatible materials could enable a new generation of chest wall implants strongly focused on functional reconstruction.
