Chevray Plastic Surgery offers their Houston patients the latest techniques in plastic surgery, like breast reconstruction, breast augmentation, and breast lift.
DIEP breast reconstruction (deep inferior epigastric perforator flap) is an advanced microsurgical technique that is used to rebuild the breasts after mastectomy.
Breast reconstruction with flap surgery — Covers what to expect from breast reconstruction. Includes TRAM, DIEP and latissimus dorsi flap procedures.
TRAM flap reconstruction for breast cancer. TRAM stands for transverse rectus abdominis, a muscle in your lower abdomen between your waist and your pubic bone.
TRAM Flap. The most common method of autogeneous tissue reconstruction is the pedicled transverse rectus abdominus myocutaneous (TRAM) flap. In this approach, the entire rectus abdominus muscle is used to carry …
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During TRAM flap surgery, an incision is made along your bikini line and an oval section of skin, fat, blood vessels, and muscle is taken from the lower half of your belly, moved up to your chest, and formed into a breast shape.
DIEP flap breast reconstruction is our specialty. PRMA has performed over 7,500 DIEP procedures with a success rate over 99%. Patients …
DIEP Breast Reconstruction DIEP breast reconstruction is an advanced technique in autologous (own tissue) transfer. DIEP is a refined version of the TRAM flap, in that the DIEP utilizes only the blood vessels, fat and skin from the abdomen.