I had prophylactic bilateral mastectomy with immediate one step reconstruction ( strattice and silicon implants) 19 days ago. My right breast developed a hematoma the day after surgery and I had to go back to the operating theatre to be opened up again and have this fixed. I also developed a seroma on the same recon breast. My question is do I now have necrosis? I saw the surgeon 4 days ago and he said blisters had developed on wound, but now it looks sore of dark brown black. Is it necrosis
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You should definitely visit with your plastic surgeon to determine what is going on. The risk of capsular contracture (a firmness of the breast caused by the scar capsule that can be distorting) is higher in reconstruction (than in augmentation). Sometimes more aggressive massage or visits with...
Generally speaking, you have very reasonable results from your reconstruction.That being said, let me see if I can help you some. If the implants you have in are mentor anatomical 330cc implants, then the dimensions of that implant are 12.0 cm wide and 11.3 cm high with 5.1 cm of projection....
There is no exact correlation between "cc" and cup size. The "cc" distribute over a chest width and height that differs in different woman. For example, a petite woman with 500cc looks very different than a stocky obese woman with 500 cc.You have to go by "look." And you can try on soft bras to...