Readers’ orthopedic and fitness questions are answered by doctors at Broward Orthopaedic Specialists in Fort Lauderdale. The following responses are from Dr. John J. Fernandez, a hand and ...

PHILADELPHIA - Doctors in Penn Medicine's Division of Plastic Surgery recently performed their 5,000th free flap reconstructive surgery -- in which tissue is taken from another part of the body and ...

The deep inferior epigastric artery perforator or DIEP flap is a microsurgical technique in which blood vessels, skin and fat are taken from the lower abdomen and used to reconstruct the breast(s).

Breast reconstruction after cancer now a reality. In this procedure, the surgeon disconnects the cancer-affected tissue entirely from its blood supply. Visakhapatnam: HCG Pinnacle Cancer centre has ...

When a breast cancer patient requires a mastectomy, cancer surgeons and reconstructive plastic surgeons at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WUSM now perform a technique called ...