Mastectomy Scars Changed After Tissue Expander Surgery?

Your description sounds like a typical appearance after a surgical procedure. Since your mastectomy incisions were used for access to perform your reconstruction, they will have an appearance after your surgery as that which you describe. It is common to have the redness from the recent surgical procedure itself as well as the feeling of "lumps" from sutures, scarring, swelling, as well as rearrangement of the soft tissue beneath the skin. However, an evaluation by your... more

In order to place the expanders, the old incisions are opened. They will stay red probably for as long as they were red before.