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).

Between January 2009 and December 2012, the researchers retrospectively reviewed data from five patients who underwent simultaneous deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap and expander ...

MacKenzie waited a year until UCSF could bring in a microsurgeon to perform the surgery - called a free DIEP flap, for deep inferior epigastric perforator flap . The surgeon, Dr. Hani Sbitany ...

Back to Healio The use of deep inferior epigastric artery perforator flap reconstruction ... Most cases had sufficient volume replacement with DIEP flap, with good breast projection and symmetry.

A new microsurgery by plastic surgeons called the Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator (DIEP) flap procedure can offer women seeking breast reconstruction after a mastectomy some of the advantages ...

DIEP (Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Artery) is a type of flap that uses skin and fat from lower abdomen using incisions similar to “tummy tuck” with no muscle removed. The flaps vessels ...

In 2006, CMS established an "S" code — S2068 — for what was then a relatively new procedure: breast reconstructions with deep inferior epigastric perforator flap, or DIEP flap. S codes ...

Plastic surgeons tend to prefer implants on their own. The Diep flap (deep inferior epigastric perforator) involves taking a portion of tissue, usually from the abdominal area, and transplanting ...