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The lower face and neck lift is a common procedure to improve the appearance of the face and neck after aging. Signs of aging can appear on the face from gain and loss of weight, exposure to sun, stress, genetics, and a whole host of other causes. The face and neck appears aged when there is excess skin, excess fat,…
Breast cancer can be treated with mastectomy. Often when a woman has breast cancer, she would like to proceed with a bilateral mastectomy, which is the removal of both breasts. Bilateral mastectomy can be done if cancer is in both breasts, or, if the patient would like to remove the other breast prophylactically. In a patient with ptotic breast, it…
There are many ways to reconstruct the breast following mastectomy. One way to reconstruct the breast which lasts the lifetime of the patient is the deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap. In DIEP flap breast reconstruction, the skin and fat from the abdomen is harvested along with the deep inferior epigastric artery and vein and transferred to the chest…
