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Proper recipient vessels are one prerequisite for free flaps. Standard recipient vessels are nowadays the internal mammary artery (IMA) and internal mammary vein (IMV). In the following we will use IMA even if we mean both artery and vein. The perforators from the IMA (IMAP) are also artery and vein, sometimes also a nerve.
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Fansa, H., Heitmann, C. (2019). Recipient Vessels. In: Breast Reconstruction with Autologous Tissue. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95468-4_9
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