Patient 4

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.

















Below is a photograph of the preoperative markings made the day before the first stage of breast reconstruction surgery. The best vessels on each side of the abdomen are marked using the information from MRA.

















Below is a photograph of the woman after her right DIEP Flap breast reconstruction.

















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.

















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