I have a compressed C5-6 and some pain in the upper back and front of chest wall (right side) including numbness under my arm pit and tingling in my right hand ring finger and pinkie. My Neurosurgeon is asking for another MRI of the Brachial Plexus and an Electromyogram. He suspects Parsonage-Turner Syndrone. Is there a possibility that a breast augmentation behind the muscle through the bottom of the nipple can damage the nerves in the area he is looking at?
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Thank you for the question and pictures. In order to achieve the outcome you are looking for, you may benefit from the use of larger breast implants and/or adjustment of the breast implant capsules (capsulorraphy). Internal suture “repair” of the capsules will allow the breast implants to ...
Options to correct this include scar
band release (rigottomy) with fat grafting or open release of the scar tissue
between the muscle and skin (capsulotomy). The first option involves harvesting fat from another part of your body
and grafting it to the scar after the scar has been released...
I have specialized in XL breast implants for many years. Yes, you should be able to go bigger with an open capsultomy and if not enough room then placement of a tissue expander and then switching to a custom silicone breast implant. I have a special arrangement with a couple of breast tissue ...