Being diagnosed with breast cancer means that the involved patients are dealing with a new phase in their lives. We can say that their priorities change radically. A study from 2011 shows that the leading cause of cancer deaths, in women, in developing countries, is breast cancer, compared to the past decade where the main cause was the cervical cancer. (1)
Up to accepting the diagnosis and regaining the strength to move forward, women go through frustration, denial, guilt, feelings exacerbated by physical mutilation (mastectomy) which they have to deal with this disease. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the main cause of cancer death among females, representing 23% of total cancer cases and 14% of cancer deaths. (1)

The concealment of cutaneous and subcutaneous defects has always been a challenge in surgery. The breast is one of the most important and defining elements of feminine beauty. Neoplastic pathology has always made it difficult to aesthetically repair the extirpated mammary tissue. Plastic and aesthetic surgery and reconstructive microsurgery, through microsurgical techniques of autologous free flap transfers, try to solve these problems.

The breast has been the expression of beauty and fertility since ancient times. The aesthetic reconstruction of the breast is and has been a challenge for plastic surgeons. Microsurgical techniques of dissection and free transfer are commonly used. During the dissection of one fresh, female cadaver, age 67, a free inferior gluteal flap was taken from gluteal region, using loupe magnification. The dissection preparations were photographed with a high definition camera.