ReviewGland surgery2016
Advances in imaging technologies for planning breast reconstruction.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- State-of-the-Art Medical Imaging Supporting Supermicrosurgery: A Scoping Review, Practical Guidelines, and Illustrative Case Report.Archives of plastic surgery · 2026Article
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- Preoperative detection of perforating vessels in autologous abdominal flap-based breast reconstruction using a smartphone-based thermography device.JPRAS open · 2025Article
- [Infrared thermography-assisted design and harvesting of ultrathin anterolateral thigh perforator flaps].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2025Article
- Pushing the boundaries in autologous breast reconstruction: innovations from imaging to artificial intelligence.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
- Ultrasound in Microsurgery: Current Applications and New Frontiers.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Imaging of the Reconstructed Breast.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Vascular Mapping for Abdominal-Based Breast Reconstruction: A Comprehensive Review of Current and Upcoming Imaging Modalities.Eplasty · 2023Review
- FlapMap Visual Language System for Vascular Imaging Prior to Microvascular Free Tissue Transfer.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2022Article
- Automatic detection of perforators for microsurgical reconstruction.Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2020Article
- The Value of Dynamic Infrared Thermography in Pedicled Thoracodorsal Artery Perforator Flap Surgery.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2020Article
- Indocyanine Green Angiography in Breast Reconstruction: Utility, Limitations, and Search for Standardization.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2020Article
- Dynamic infrared thermography (DIRT) in Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator (DIEP) flap breast reconstruction: standardization of the measurement set-up.Gland surgery · 2019Article
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- [Progress of monitoring methods and preventions of disorder of blood supplying of expanded flaps].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2018Review
- Breast reconstruction with anatomical implants: A review of indications and techniques based on current literature.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2017Review
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Abstract
The role and choice of preoperative imaging for planning in breast reconstruction is still a disputed topic in the reconstructive community, with varying opinion on the necessity, the ideal imaging modality, costs and impact on patient outcomes. Since the advent of perforator flaps their use in microsurgical breast reconstruction has grown. Perforator based flaps afford lower donor morbidity by sparing the underlying muscle provide durable results, superior cosmesis to create a natural looking new breast, and are preferred in the context of radiation therapy. However these surgeries are complex; more technically challenging that implant based reconstruction, and leaves little room for error. The role of imaging in breast reconstruction can assist the surgeon in exploring or confirming flap choices based on donor site characteristics and presence of suitable perforators. Vascular anatomical studies in the lab have provided the surgeon a foundation of knowledge on location and vascular territories of individual perforators to improve our understanding for flap design and safe flap harvest. The creation of a presurgical map in patients can highlight any abnormal or individual anatomical variance to optimize flap design, intraoperative decision-making and execution of flap harvest with greater predictability and efficiency. This article highlights the role and techniques for preoperative planning using the newer technologies that have been adopted in reconstructive clinical practice: computed tomographic angiography (CTA), magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), laser-assisted indocyanine green fluorescence angiography (LA-ICGFA) and dynamic infrared thermography (DIRT). The primary focus of this paper is on the application of CTA and MRA imaging modalities.
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