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OMENTAL TRANSPOSITION AND SKIN GRAFT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CHEST WALL RECURRENCE OF CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST
Author(s) -
NEWING RICHARD K.,
PRIBAZ JULIAN J.,
C. BENNETT RICHARD,
BULS JOHN
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1979.tb05871.x
Subject(s) - medicine , transposition (logic) , breast carcinoma , surgery , recurrent breast cancer , breast cancer , cancer , philosophy , linguistics
The greater omentum is readily available for the reconstruction of the defect produced after palliative exicision of recurrent breastcarcinoma. It covers a wide area and readily accepts a skin graft, and it has been observed that there is some local immunity to the reappearance of further recurrence at the site of the graft. The operation can be combined with endocrine ablation