Free TRAM

With a Free TRAM your abdominal tissue is disconnected from underlying muscle and reattached in the breast using microsurgery to reconnect the blood vessels.

• Less muscle is used in this operation than the pedicled TRAM, thereby maintaining your abdominal strength.
• This flap has better circulation, allowing more tissue to be transferred, and provides for accurate shaping of the tissues.
• This type of reconstruction is successful more than 95% of the time.

Diagram of a free TRAM breast reconstruction—the abdominal tissue and a portion of the abdominal muscle are detached from the body and reconnected using microsurgical techniques.