METHOD FOR PREVENTING COMPLICATIONS AFTER PRIMARY RECONSTRUCTIVE-PLASTIC OPERATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH MAMMARY CANCER Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC A61B17/00 

FIELD: medicine, oncosurgery.

SUBSTANCE: one should intraoperationally inject 0.5 ml 1%-patent-blue-VF into thoracodorsal artery by performing direct contrast angiography of the flap of the broadest muscle of back (BMB). Moreover, at suturing a great thoracic muscle and BMB one should not touch contrasted vessels. The innovation enables to visualize muscular branches of the mentioned artery and its branches, control its integrity, prevent the chance for suturing muscular branches of thoracodorsal artery, avoid affected supply of BMB flap; as for applied patient-blue-VF preparation, it is excreted out of the body very quickly and doesn't destroy vascular endothelium.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of prophylaxis.

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