Elisabeth Potter, a doctor based in Austin, Texas, created a video on Instagram detailing her experience treating a cancer ...

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 ...

I can’t believe this is happening." A Texas surgeon was performing surgery when she received an unexpected call from the ...

(In DIEP flap surgery reconstruction, skin, fat and blood vessels from the patient's abdominal area are used to rebuild breasts.) During one of the DIEP cases, while the patient was asleep on the ...

Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas is the only hospital in the state offering this type of procedure, called DIEP flap surgery ...

Potter explained that she was performing a bilateral DIEP flap surgery—a complex, life-changing procedure for breast cancer patients—when she was interrupted by a call from UnitedHealthcare.

but don't always stay in position The surgery, known as deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP), is only performed in one Welsh health board - Swansea Bay - and takes skin from the stomach to ...

A surgeon in Austin, Texas, was in the operating room with a patient when a call came in from the patient’s insurance ...

A DIEP flap surgery reconstruction is a type of abdominal wall flap procedure. The DIEP — or deep inferior epigastric perforator — flap is named for the blood vessel that runs through the ...