DIEP flap surgery is an option for patients who have had a mastectomy, in which one or both breasts are removed because of breast cancer or to prevent breast cancer. The primary benefit of a DIEP flap ...

Breast reconstruction usually takes more than one surgery ... "SIEA (superficial inferior epigastric artery) flap is similar to the DIEP flap. But with this surgery, the surgeon doesn't cut through ...

Shannon, who is from Arkansas, had the DIEP flap surgery performed at Mercy in ... been called the "gold standard" procedure ...