Improvement in Breast Skin Sensibility After Breast Reconstruction: a Comparison of 3 Surgical Techniques

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

63

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 30, 2025

Primary Completion Date

February 29, 2028

Study Completion Date

February 28, 2029

Conditions
Breast Cancer SurgeryReconstruction Breast SurgerySensitizationDIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction
Interventions
PROCEDURE

Nerve Suture

"Sensory nerve coaptations will be performed~1. either by suturing the donor to the recipient nerve immediately (1 coaptation)~2. or by interposing an autograft originating from the zone of the flap to be discarded (2 coaptations). The anterior cutaneous branch (ACB) of the 3rd or 4th intercostal nerve (ICN) will be connected to the sensory branch of the 10th, 11th or 12th ICN of the flap."

Trial Locations (1)

1205

RECRUITING

Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Patricia Esther Engels

OTHER