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Breast Reconstruction Before & After


Patient 49 Case #10040


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Description:

This patient had a DIEP flap and nipple reconstruction performed on her right breast and a breast reduction on her left breast.


Patient 50 Case #299


Description:

This patient underwent nipple-sparing mastectomies with tissue expander reconstruction followed by exchange to silicone gel implants.  She wanted to be larger.


Patient 51 Case #301


Description:

This patient underwent nipple-sparing mastectomies with tissue expander reconstruction followed by exchange to silicone gel implants.


Patient 52 Case #302


Description:

This patient underwent nipple-sparing mastectomies with tissue expander reconstruction followed by exchange to silicone gel implants.  She wanted to be larger.


Patient 53 Case #334


Description:

This patient underwent a right lumpectomy and a right oncoplastic breast reconstruction and a left breast reduction for symmetry.


Patient 54 Case #133


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Description:

This patient had a double nipple sparing mastectomies following her diagnosis of breast cancer.   Dr. Rao performed a two-stage reconstruction in this case.   He began by placing temporary devices called tissue expanders at the same time as the mastectomies.   Three months later he was able to remove the tissue expanders and replace them with permanent silicone implants.  Her goal was to have her reconstruct her breasts as close as possible to her native breasts.


Patient 55 Case #134


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Description:

This patient had a double nipple-sparing mastectomies following her diagnosis of breast cancer.   Dr. Rao performed a two-stage reconstruction in this case.   He began by placing temporary devices called tissue expanders at the same time as the mastectomies.   Three months later he was able to remove the tissue expanders and replace them with permanent silicone implants.  Her goal was to be slightly larger following reconstruction.


Patient 56 Case #135


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Description:

This patient had nipple-sparing mastectomies and reconstruction of her breasts with bilateral tissue expanders followed by replacement with silicone breast implants.


Patient 57 Case #137


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Description:

This patient had Wise-pattern (breast reduction style) mastectomies and tissue expander reconstruction followed by placement of silicone gel implants.  She then had fat grafting and nipple reconstruction followed by 3D nipple-areolar tattooing.  The final result looks more like a breast lift or breast reduction than a breast reconstruction.


Patient 58 Case #138


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Description:

This patient had bilateral nipple-sparing mastectomies and reconstruction of her breasts with tissue expanders followed by silicone breast implants.


Patient 59 Case #13861


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Description:

This patient had a right nipple-sparing mastectomy and direct-to-implant reconstruction of her right breast.  Dr. Rao was able to achieve excellent symmetry with this reconstruction and did not need to do any surgery on the left breast to match the reconstructed right breast.


Patient 60 Case #21024


Description:

This woman in her 50’s underwent a breast reconstruction. Prosthetic breast reconstruction is typically done in two stages. During the first stage, the time of mastectomy, the plastic surgeon will place a temporary implant called a tissue expander. The tissue expander will slowly fill up over time and be replaced with a permanent implant during the secondary surgery.