Abstract
Poland Syndrome is a congenital anomaly of the thoracic wall characterized by a variable degree of unilateral agenesis of pectoralis major and minor muscles associated with ipsilateral breast, rib and upper arm anomalies. Many different techniques have been used to treat the thoracic anomaly, including fat transfer, positioning of implants alone or associated with invasive procedures such as latissimus dorsi transposition. The objective of this chapter is to describe a new approach to breast reconstruction in patients with Poland syndrome: a pedicled omentum flap harvested laparoscopically covering the breast or pectoral implant positioned in a subcutaneous pocket. In our opinion this approach can avoid the invasiveness and morbidity of latissimus dorsi transposition, obtaining satisfactory results in selected cases.
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Romanini, M.V., Morovic, C.G. (2016). Laparoscopically Harvested Omental Flap for Breast Reconstruction in Poland Syndrome. In: Shiffman, M. (eds) Breast Reconstruction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18726-6_47
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