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From: 11-year experience with Chest Wall resection and reconstruction for primary Chest Wall sarcomas

Fig. 2

Extensive chest wall resection for angiosarcoma. Shown in A are two MRI sections of a 64-year-old woman with a diagnosis of a high-grade angiosarcoma of the chest wall. Shown in B are: the planed resection margins - B1, the actual gap in the chest wall with exposure of the entire left lung - B2, the reconstruction of the chest wall gap with a PTFE Gore-Tex patch- B3, the planed right rectus abdominis musculocutanous rotational flap - B4, the harvesting, transfer and anchorage of the flap at the surgical site - B5, and the closure of the abdominal site - B6

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