Patient Details
This is a patient who had a lumpectomy and radiation therapy and suffered recurrent breast cancer on the right side requiring a mastectomy. This patient had an immediate reconstruction after the mastectomy using a TRAM flap. A TRAM flap reconstruction is a transverse abdominous muscle flap breast reconstruction. This is a pedicled breast reconstruction using the abdominal muscle as a blood supply. The skin of the abdomen below the umbilicus is used for the breast reconstruction. This is the skin you might take off in a tummy tuck. She liked it Nice.
This is the second stage of breast reconstruction. A nipple was created using the local skin on the right side of the reconstructed breast, which was a tram flap breast reconstruction. And the left breast which did not have any cancer was reduced and lifted to match the smaller reconstructed breast. The goal was to try to make as much symmetry as possible.
