Following a radical mastectomy, a plastic surgeon uses a pedicled myocutaneous flap of the suprapubic portion of the rectus abdominis muscle to reconstruct the breast. What artery, supplying blood to the myocutaneous flap, needs to be iso- lated, transected, and later grafted to the reconstruction site?

(A) Superficial epigastric artery
(B) Superior epigastric artery
(C) Inferior epigastric artery
(D) Inferior mesenteric artery
(E) Musculophrenic artery


Answer: (C) Inferior epigastric artery

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