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tummy tuck breast reconstruction: tram, diep and siea flaps

Back in the early 1980s, surgeons began performing the transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap—a fancy mouthful that means using your own abdominal tissue to rebuild breasts after...

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Stacked DIEP Breast Reconstruction

DIEP flap reconstruction uses abdominal fat and skin to create new breasts after mastectomy. But what if a woman who is facing unilateral mastectomy and prefers not to use breast implants for her...

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Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy: Deciding with Your Head or Your Heart?

If you’re facing mastectomy of one of your breasts, what should you decide about the other? Increasingly, women are choosing contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) of their opposite healthy...

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Improving Mastectomy Scars

Visible scars on a reconstructed breast are an ever-present reminder of mastectomy and reconstruction. Surgery and scars go hand-in-hand; scars form as the body’s healing process floods the incision...

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oncoplastic breast reconstruction after lumpectomy

Guest Blog Although most women who consider breast reconstruction do so following mastectomy, many women who have a lumpectomy to treat breast cancer are candidates for reconstruction. In the...

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Enhanced Recovery Pathway Reduces Hospital Stay and Improves Recovery After...

The Mayo Clinic is using an innovative approach that emphasizes pain control with less use of intravenous opioids to facilitate easier, quicker recovery for women who have breast reconstruction after...

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Delayed-Immediate Breast Reconstruction

For many women, potentially needing post-mastectomy radiation can affect the ability to have immediate breast reconstruction. Mastectomy patients who are diagnosed with invasive breast tumors often...

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Study of Breast Reconstruction with Implants Shows Advantages of Using...

A retrospective study conducted by Northern Westchester Hospital in Mt. Kisco, New York found that women who have breast reconstruction with implants and an acellular dermal matrix (ADM) have better...

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Autologous Fat Grafting in Breast Reconstruction

Guest BlogOne topic that has attracted growing attention in the field of Advanced Breast Reconstruction is autologous fat grafting for total breast reconstruction. (“Autologous” means that the tissue...

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Using The Thighs for breast reconstruction

Women who consider breast reconstruction often know that excess fat can be surgically transferred from their abdomen to their chest to create new breasts after mastectomy. In fact, fat can be taken...

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Surgical Risks of Breast Reconstruction

All surgical procedures, regardless of their purpose, carry risk to some degree, and breast reconstruction is no exception. Even though most women do not encounter serious problems from surgery,...

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Nipple Reconstruction: Skin Grafts or Local Breast Flap?

Source: MDAnderson.org After breast reconstruction, some women opt to forego nipple reconstruction, although many others consider it to be the final step in the process. It’s an optional procedure that...

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using surgical drains after breast reconstruction

Guest BlogMany women consider grenade-shaped surgical drains to be one of the most annoying aspects of recovery, but drains perform a necessary function. In the following guest blog, Dr. Aldona Spiegel...

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WHO IS NOT A CANDIDATE FOR DIEP BREAST RECONSTRUCTION?

Guest BlogConsidering a DIEP or SIEA flap for your breast reconstruction after mastectomy? You probably already know that to do so, you need to have enough tummy fat to construct your new breast. But...

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national hboc week and national previvor day 2014

Image: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------An estimated three-quarters of a million Americans...

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National BrA Day: A day highlighting breast reconstruction

Studies show that most women who face mastectomy are uninformed about their post-surgery options, including breast reconstruction. And all too often, those who are told about reconstruction don’t know...

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Mastectomy with or without breast reconstruction

Women who face mastectomy have several options to have their breasts recreated. Not all women are candidates for all options, and not all surgeons perform all procedures. If you’re considering...

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Clarifying Your Legal Rights to Breast Reconstruction

If you’re considering breast reconstruction after mastectomy, you’ll find an overwhelming amount of information on the Internet regarding insurance coverage. But be careful what you read, because not...

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UPDATe: airxpanders (breast expansion without needles or fills)

Follow-up to "Building a Better Mousetrap" posted June 2013.The potential for a much improved method of tissue expansion as a part of breast reconstruction after mastectomy is closer to becoming a...

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Male Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction

We all know that women are at risk for breast cancer, but that threat extends to men as well, and it’s just as serious. Women are about 100 times more likely to develop breast cancer as men. The...

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