Contralateral internal mammary vessels – a rescue recipient vessels option in breast reconstruction

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The most used vessels for free flap breast reconstruction are the internal mammary, the thoracodorsal and the circumflex scapular. We present a case where those were inadequate. DIEP vessels were passed through a created sternal groove and anastomosed to the contralateral IM vessels, accessed by the breast symmetrisation incisions.