Breast reconstruction after a mastectomy is a conscious choice to reclaim your femininity. You can live a normal life after your cancer, and regaining your figure is a way to help yourself physically and emotionally. DIEP flap surgery is a technique for rebuilding your breast without an implant. It uses your own tissue and sometimes can be completed the same day as your mastectomy. Don’t let cancer deprive you of happiness. Call an experienced, board certified cosmetic surgeon like those at Rowe Plastic Surgery in New York City and in New Jersey before your mastectomy. Find out if you’re a candidate for this procedure.
What Is DIEP Flap Surgery?
Breast cancer strikes one in every eight American women. Those who survive are often scarred for life. If you’re one of those survivors, you don’t have to remain scarred. A DIEP flap surgery is a breast reconstruction technique that follows a mastectomy. DIEP stands for a deep inferior epigastric perforator type of flap surgery, and it’s a microsurgical technique to rebuild your breast.
During the procedure, a skilled plastic surgeon uses the tissue, fat, and blood vessels from your lower abdomen — the same fat that would be thrown away in a tummy tuck — to reconstruct one or both breasts lost to your cancer treatment. The procedure gets its name from the deep inferior epigastric perforator, the DIEP, which is the branch of blood vessels relocated during the procedure.
If your breast cancer surgeon recommends mastectomy, talk to a board-certified cosmetic surgeon about DIEP flap reconstruction. The compassionate cosmetic breast surgeons at Rowe Plastic Surgery in Manhattan, Long Island, New Jersey, and the Hamptons perform transformative breast surgeries, including breast reconstruction.
They use a multi-disciplinary approach to breast reconstruction that includes:
– DIEP flap breast reconstruction
– Breast augmentation
– Nipple reconstruction and correction
What Are the Types of DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction?
The DIEP flap procedure differs from other breast reconstruction surgeries because the surgeon leaves your abdomen muscles in place. The DIEP flap breast reconstruction is an improvement over other surgical procedures, such as the TRAM breast reconstruction, and offers unique long-term benefits. The timing of a DIEP flap breast reconstruction can differ, so there are three types of the procedure:
1. Immediate DIEP flap reconstruction. This procedure includes two separate surgeries. The first is the mastectomy, in which your breast cancer surgeon removes your breast tissue to treat or prevent breast cancer. Next, your plastic surgeon starts the breast reconstruction while you’re still under general anesthesia.
2. Delayed DIEP flap reconstruction. If you need further cancer treatment, including radiation therapy after your mastectomy, you can’t have an immediate DIEP flap breast reconstruction. The delayed DIEP flap surgery takes place later, after you’re through with your cancer treatments. The delayed procedure reduces DIEP flap surgery risks, involves intense testing to be sure you’re cancer-free and has specific advantages.
3. Two-staged DIEP flap surgery. In this delayed DIEP flap surgery, your cosmetic surgeon inserts a tissue expander into your breast skin and muscle at the time of your mastectomy. During this stage of a delayed DIEP flap surgery, the silicone tissue expander maintains the shape of the removed breast. The second-stage DIEP flap surgery comes later, after your radiation therapy or chemotherapy have completed.
At one of the Rowe Plastic Surgery facilities in New Jersey and New York, the surgical team carries out extensive tests to determine the best surgery plan for your case. After your mastectomy, several factors determine the best time for your DIEP flap breast reconstruction.
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