Iginio Tansini revisited

D. Ribuffo, E. Cigna, G.L. Gerald, N. Houseman, S. Seneviratne, E. Lombardi, P. Parisi, N. Scuderi

Department of Surgery “P. Valdoni”, Unit of Plastic Surgery, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy. emanuelecigna@msn.com

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• Plastic Surgery

The origin of the muscolocutaneous latissimus dorsi flap dates back to 1906 when Igino Tansini, an Italian surgeon, described a procedure to reconstruct the mastectomy defect. After a detailed study of Tansini’s original description and drawings, new insights about the pedicle of its compound flap have been found, showing that it has the same pedicle of the scapular flap. In the end, Tansini’s flap should be more correctly considered as a compound musculocutaneous scapular flap.

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