I had a DIEP flap 10 years ago and while scrubbing my tub I felt this pain and pop in upper rib area underneath my reconstructed breast. My pain still is there and I am having trouble getting comfortable. Could I have moved something that is causing this pain?
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Thanks for your question. Metal ‘Liga’ clips are routinely used during this procedure to prevent bleeding. They tend to be very small and are harmless. They do not migrate. The clips will likely have been used in areas that are not directly related to your scars, and I don’t think that the sympt...
Thanks for your question. Unfortunately you have a lack of breast volume but also a shortage of skin, which will means that creating a natural appearing reconstruction with a breast implant will be very challenging. The gold standard reconstruction in this situation would be to transplant skin...
The skin color of the transplanted tissue of the DIEP flap does not change, There may be some color variation due to the photographs that you are seeing, but in reality the skin stays the same color as the location it was transplanted from.
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