Given your history of a small area that is persistently draining a small amount, you may have a “spitting suture” at this area. There are no signs of infection evident from the photos provided. Usually if a suture spits from an incision, it is self limited and resolves in time without fur...
After reviewing your photos and with the time frame of 3 weeks after surgery I would recommend that you have a debridement of the devitalized tissue sooner rather than later. It is my experience that after a certain amount of time the devitalized tissue can act as a starting point for a w...
Ben Brown, MD (license emergency restriction) says:
Hello rsam123,
Thanks for sharing your experience after surgery. It's not uncommon to have asymmetric bruising and firmness after breast reduction surgery. After all, the breasts are not identical twins. Often, plastic surgeons find that the anatomy of the breasts is subtly different. This can...