Successful Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap Harvest despite Preoperative Therapeutic Subcutaneous Heparin Administration into the Abdominal Pannus

<div>CT angiogram of Patient 3 showing multiple small subcutaneous haemorrhages bilaterally at the sites of heparin injections. DIEP branches appear intact in adjacent fat. The inferior epigastric arteries are seen running posterior to the rectus muscle and sheath.</div>

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Figure 4: Successful Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap Harvest despite Preoperative Therapeutic Subcutaneous Heparin Administration into the Abdominal Pannus 

Figure 4 | Successful Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap Harvest despite Preoperative Therapeutic Subcutaneous Heparin Administration into the Abdominal Pannus 