Large parietectomy for late abdominal wall recurrence following colonic resection: reconstruction with a latissimus dorsi myocutaneous free flap withdelayed insertion.

Parietal recurrence following conventional treatment of colorectal cancer i s an unfrequent event and is usually associated with an intra-abdominal rec urrence. The study aim was to report a large solitary abdominal wall recurr ence observed 80 months after the resection of a sigmoid adenocarcinoma and treated by a left hemiparietectomy associated with a segmental colectomy. The abdominal wall reconstruction combined a prosthesis and a latissimus do rsi myocutaneous free flap with delayed insertion after initial transfert. (C) 2001 Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS.