Patient 1


These photographs show the stages of DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction in a woman, after she had a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

Below is the preoperative photo.

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Below is a photograph of the woman after her right DIEP Flap breast reconstruction. She is being marked for her second stage.

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Below is a photograph after the second stage, in which nipple reconstruction and adjustment of the right breast flap was performed. A left symmetrizing breast reduction was performed. Minor revision to the abdominal donor site was performed.

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Below is a photograph after the "third stage", tattooing by the medical tattoo artist.

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