ABSTRACT
Following initial proposals for use of the latissimus dorsi (LD) myocutaneous flap for breast mound reconstruction post-mastectomy, several publications have addressed various issues relating to autologous tissue reconstruction with the LD flap. Introduction of this method greatly increased the scope for breast reconstruction and it gained enormous popularity in the 1980s and was championed by the late John Bostwick III of Emory University in the United States.1 One of the authors had the honour of learning the LD flap technique personally from him.
