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    Free flap complications: common causes for reexploration.

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    A retrospective study of 100 consecutive patients undergoing immediate microsurgical reconstruction after resection of head and neck cancer was conducted, correlated to the economic impact in a heterogeneous group of elderly patients affected by different types of cancer, with different locations and different free flap donor sites.1 Postoperative medical complications were statistically more important in pulmonary and alcohol patients in negatively affecting the outcomes and true costs of microsurgical procedures

    Management of nipple-areolar complex complications in skin-sparing mastectomy with prosthetic reconstruction A case report

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    Venous congestion of the NAC (Nipple-Areola Complex) is not an uncommon complication of Skin-Reducing Mastectomy (SRM). The correct and prompt evaluation of the NAC's vitality in the first hours after surgery is important for the survival of the same, in fact the possibility of early intervention allows avoiding the use of invasive and radicals techniques to the advantage of simpler rapid procedures
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