Breast Reconstruction Cases

A 47 year-old woman with cancer in her left breast.  She already had breast implants from previous breast augmentation surgery.  She is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 174 pounds.  She underwent bilateral nipple-sparing mastectomies with immediate reconstruction using 650 cc round silicone gel breast implants and a tissue support matrix (AlloDerm).

This 68 year-old woman had cancer in her right breast.  She is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 153 pounds.  She underwent bilateral nipple-sparing mastectomies.  Dr. Kunkel reconstructed each breast with a 415 ml round silicone gel breast implants and soft tissue support matrix.

This 43 year-old woman (5 feet 7 inches tall, 139 pounds) had breast implants from previous breast augmentation surgery.  She developed cancer in her right breast.  She underwent bilateral mastectomies.  Dr. Kunkel reconstructed each breast with a 520 ml round silicone gel breast implant and soft tissue support matrix.

This 51 year-old woman developed cancer in her right breast.  The breast oncology surgeon did a lumpectomy through an incision along the upper part of the right breast.  The margins of the lumpectomy specimen were positive and the woman required a right mastectomy.  At the time of the mastectomy Dr. Kunkel reconstructed her breast with […]

A 45 year-old woman with DCIS in her right breast.  She is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has large, pendulous breasts.  She underwent bilateral mastectomies through an “anchor” pattern incision like would be used for a breast reduction.  Both breasts were reconstructed with tissue expanders.  Four months later the expanders were […]

A 41 year-old woman with cancer in her right breast.  She is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds.  She underwent bilateral mastectomies.  Dr. Kunkel reconstructed each breast with a tissue expander.  The expanders were replaced 3 1/2 months later with 510 ml round silicone gel breast implants.  Dr. Kunkel also grafted 100 […]

A 53 year-old woman with cancer in her left breast.  She underwent bilateral mastectomies and immediate reconstruction with tissue expanders.  The tissue expanders were later replaced with 375 cc moderate-plus profile silicone gel breast implants.  Her nipples were reconstructed a few months after that.

She is 56 and had cancer in her right breast.  She underwent a right mastectomy, and her breast was reconstructed immediately with a latissimus flap and tissue expander.  Six months later the tissue expander was replaced with a silicone gel implant, and she underwent a lift of her left breast at the same time.