DIEP flap breast reconstruction preserving a lumbar peritoneal shunt tube

Kentarou Ueki; Katsuhiro Yoshikawa; Tatsuki Enoshiri; Masahiro Tanji; Megumi Takeuchi; Shigehiko Suzuki

doi:10.1080/23320885.2017.1296362

DIEP flap breast reconstruction preserving a lumbar peritoneal shunt tube

Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg. 2017 Mar 2;4(1):17-20. doi: 10.1080/23320885.2017.1296362. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Kentarou Ueki¹, Katsuhiro Yoshikawa², Tatsuki Enoshiri¹, Masahiro Tanji³, Megumi Takeuchi⁴, Shigehiko Suzuki¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
² Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shiga Medical Center for Adults, Shiga, Japan.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
⁴ Department of Breast Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

Abstract

We herein report a case of immediate deep inferior epigastric perforator flap (DIEP flap) breast reconstruction surgery in a 50-year-old female patient with a lumbar peritoneal shunt tube. We performed DIEP flap reconstruction in the patient by withdrawing and subsequently reinserting the abdominal side of an implanted shunt tube.

Keywords: Breast reconstruction; DIEP flap; abdominal flap; contraindication; medical device.

Publication types

Case Reports