Open AccessResponse to ‘Australia's contribution to the free abdominoplasty flap in breast reconstruction’
Author(s) -
David Pennington
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
australasian journal of plastic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2209-170X
DOI - 10.34239/ajops.v4n1.300
Subject(s) - abdominoplasty , breast reconstruction , medicine , surgery , breast cancer , plastic surgery , anatomy , cancer
Perhaps few realise that the development of what became known as the free transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap was a race involving not one but two surgical teams, one in Sydney and the other, with the aid of the Australian Richard Hamilton, in Sweden