DESCRIPTION:

Patient is a 53 year old woman who has right breast cancer. She has invasive lobular carcinoma stage 2. She is a DDD breasts who desires to be smaller. Due to the size of her tumor, she elected to undergo right breast mastectomy.

Her breast reconstructions involves 2 stages.

Stage 1: Right breast mastectomy and immediate reconstruction with tissue expanders and free nipple graft to salvage the nipple and place it in the right location

Stage 2: Right breast tissue expander removal and placement of permanent implant along with left breast reduction for symmetry.

Implant right breast – Natrelle SCX (extra high profile) 800cc