Two Types of Breast Reconstruction Surgery
3.1. Body Tissue Reconstruction
This is the most common option to reshape a breast after a lumpectomy or mastectomy. As the name implies, the procedure reconstructs the breast with your own muscle, fat, or skin tissue. The skin typically comes from an area of the body that might be covered by clothes, such as the abdomen or buttocks. The results tend to be long-lasting and natural-looking. Common types of body tissue reconstruction include:
– SIEA flap: tissues are taken from the blood vessels, underlying fat, and skin in the lower belly, around the bikini line
– TRAM flap: tissues are taken from muscles in the stomach. It is suitable for those with excess fat on the belly skin or those who underwent chest wall radiation
– Latissimus dorisi flap: tissues are taken from a part of skin and muscles in the upper back
– DIEP flap: tissues in the deep inferior epigastric artery perforator are used [3]
