[Treatment of radiation sequelae after breast cancer].

Defects of the chest wall after radiation for carcinoma of the breast cannot be closed by means of simple split-skin graft or compound flaps because of the decreased blood supply. Only transposition flaps will survive because of their own vascularisation. Musculocutaneous flaps, the latissimus island flap or the vertical or transverse rectus abdominis-flap, which also can be used for the reconstruction of a bid pendolous breast, are the safest.