Please advise how can the keloid is treated or let it be. Thank you. I had a radical mastectomy ( L) in 2010 and following with Radiation and Tamoxifen treatment. The scar heal well but the lower end of scar became keloid. It was red and painful. Recently, the keloid has extended further and I has suffered from sharp pain, especially as wearing bra.
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Answer: Vbeam combined with melarase creams to help with pigmentation, injection therapy if needed
It is not uncommon to have excess skin and subcutaneous tissue lateral to the breast after mastectomy. Sometimes this lateral excess is mainly skin, as you seem to be describing, due to removal of the adjacent breast tissue and preservation of nearby skin. In that case, the loose skin can be...
I'm sorry you are suffering! Placing tissue that has had no radiation exposure at the site may help considerably. It will improve drainage and decrease tightness. It means more surgery, but it may give you relief. This would be a DIEP or latissimus flap. Talk with your doctors about these...
Thank you for your question. Choosing the surgeon you feel most comfortable performing your prophylactic mastectomy is certainly an important personal decision. As someone who has trained in both general surgery and plastic surgery and practices in the LA area, both mastectomy and breast r...
