Breast Reconstruction Case #188

Breast Reconstruction

Case #188 Details

Procedures Depicted: Breast Lift Breast Reconstruction

This was a difficult case of a 58 year old patient with a history of left breast cancer and mastectomy.  When she had a repeat of cancer in her left breast, a mastectomy was performed and tissue expander was placed at the same time.  Her nipple areolar complex sat low on her left side.  For this next operation, a breast lift was performed on the right side to re-level her.  A standard circumvertical mastopexy was performed with elevation of the skin with a diamond shape excision.  Her left breast used a Mentor MemoryShape breast implant medium height high profile.