Breast reconstruction
The loss of her breast due to cancer resection is a very traumatizing event for every woman, impairing her quality of life enormously. There are different surgical approaches to breast cancer, which can vary from limited tissue resection (lumpectomy) via skin preserving techniques (subcutaneous mastectomy) to complete resection of breast and skin ( complete mastectomy).Reconstruction of the breast by simply inserting a silicone implant is not always possible after irradiation, and the aesthetic result in many cases less than desirable.
In many cases women are much happier with the feel of their own body tissue for reconstruction of her breast.
This can be achieved with various tissue transfers-so called “flaps” for instance as a free tissue-transfer from the lower abdomen, when a block of skin and fat with or without a piece of the abdominal muscle is harvested together with corresponding blood vessels which are than connected to blood vessels in the axilla using microsurgical techniques.
This procedure includes the benefit of aesthetic reshaping of the abdominal wall like in an abdominoplasty (TRAM flap, DIEP flap) or in other words,a tummy tuck.
Further possibilities applied in the department of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery of Hospital Quiron include tissue harvest from the buttocks or thighs(S-GAP,I-GAP, Gracilis flaps).
Nipple-areola reconstruction as well as adjusting procedures on the contralateral side are sometimes necessary, mostly as secondary procedures.
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