DIEP flap surgery is a type of breast reconstruction. It uses skin, fat and blood vessels from your lower belly to rebuild your breast after a mastectomy or lumpectomy. It’s a muscle-sparing procedure, so no abdominal muscles are cut or removed.

In a DIEP flap, fat, skin, and blood vessels are cut from the wall of the lower belly and moved up to your chest to rebuild your breast.

2022年12月28日 · A newer procedure, deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap, is similar to an msTRAM flap, but only skin and fat are removed. Most of the abdominal muscle is left in place and minimal muscle tissue is taken to form the new breast mound.

2023年3月16日 · After a mastectomy, you may want to have breast reconstruction surgery. With DIEP flap reconstruction surgery, your doctor uses your tissue instead of implants to rebuild a natural breast.

A DIEP flap (/ ˈ d iː p /, DEEP) is type of breast reconstruction where blood vessels, fat, and skin from the lower belly are relocated to the chest to rebuild breasts after mastectomy. [1] DIEP stands for the deep inferior epigastric perforator artery, which runs through the abdomen.

2021年9月7日 · More patients with breast cancer are getting DIEP flap or tissue flap breast reconstruction, a type of reconstructive surgery that uses the patient’s own tissue from other parts of the body. MD Anderson plastic surgeons share what to know if you’re considering this type of breast reconstruction.

2024年12月6日 · Deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap is a type of breast reconstruction surgery that uses a woman’s own abdominal fat, skin, and blood vessels to rebuild the breast or breasts after mastectomy. The tissue used to create a new breast is called a flap. DIEP flap is one of several breast reconstruction options.

One of the newer flap techniques is the DIEP flap, or Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery Perforator flap. To perform a DIEP flap procedure surgeons use skin and fatty tissue from the lower abdomen to reconstruct a breast, leaving the abdominal muscle intact.

2024年5月17日 · Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator (DIEP) flap surgery, reconstructs breasts post-mastectomy using patient’s own abdominal tissue, preserving muscles.

In deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap breast reconstruction, Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Plastic and Reconstructive surgeons use skin and fat from the lower abdomen to create a new breast after mastectomy.