Flap reconstruction is a reconstructive surgery in which a flap of skin and fat with or without muscle is transplanted from a part of the body (for example, the lower abdomen, back, thigh, or buttock) to the chest area where it is shaped to form a new breast mound. Like the implant s...
In a free-flap procedure, the tissue is disconnected and then attached to a blood supply near the new location. This is a more complicated procedure. The biggest risk is that the blood vessels may get clogged and the flap might die. The benefit is that the reconstruction looks more like a...
Other flap techniques that may be used for breast reconstruction are free tissue transfers including the superior gluteal flap, the lateral thigh flap, the deepinferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap, and the Rubens flap. These flaps are generally utilized only when the first line choices cannot...
DIEP FLAP Reconstruction Using Your Own Tissue For Reconstructing Breasts Naturally Breast Reconstruction In Lone Tree, CO At The Breast Center Park Meadows Cosmetic Surgery, we understand that choosing where to go for breast reconstruction can be overwhelming. We are proud to offer compassionate care...
Breast reconstruction is performed so that no woman has to deal with this reality. Breast reconstruction uses the flap method, where tissue is taken from another part of your body and molded to create a new breast, or tissue expanders and implants, which is very similar to breast augmentation...
Are you a candidate for SGAP Flap breast reconstruction surgery? Most women with breast cancer have enough skin and fat in the stomach area (lower abdomen) to reconstruct one or two breasts. Even for patients who have had prior abdominal surgery, almost everyone is a candidate for this operat...
Breast reconstruction surgery Breast radiation therapy Breast trauma, such as injury from a motor vehicle accident Breast seromas are common after breast cancer surgery, affecting roughly 20% of females who undergo a mastectomy.5 The risk of a seroma is influenced by the extent of the surgery, ...
POST-SURGERY INSTRUCTIONS: BREAST RECONSTRUCTION with DIEP FLAP Once your surgery is completed, you must follow all the instructions given to you in order to heal properly and have good outcomes. The following instructions are your obligation. Use this as a checklist of progress as you heal. ...
Sometimes this can be achieved while simultaneously providing a reconstruction of a very aesthetic breast mound. Depending on circumstances and the extent of disease, a simpler solution might be to just close only the chest wound that has been created. A“workhorse” flap alternative that is ...
Surgery insight: Oncoplastic breast-conserving reconstruction--indications, benefits, choices and outcomes. Until recently, the surgical management of breast cancer has centered around two main options--either tumor resection by carrying out breast-conserving sur... Rainsbury,M Richard - 《Nature Clinica...