Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breast Cancer Reconstruction: The Truth About DIEP Flap Surgery

29 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD about breast cancer reconstruction. Dr. Whitfield states that in his reconstructions he used microsurgery with the DIEP free flap, emphasizes that the procedure spared muscle and nerves, reports a very high rate of success, and disputes patient reports that prosthetic mesh was used (he says it was never used).

Questions this video answers

Microsurgery using the DIEP free flap.

No — he states prosthetic mesh was never used.

A muscle- and nerve-sparing procedure.

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So, I mean, there are ways to do this. And certainly when I did breast cancer reconstruction, we used microsurgery and used the DIEP free flap. And I've had many, many patients contact me and say they had prosthetic mesh used during that operation, which was never the case. When we did the operation, it was a muscle and nerve sparing procedure and done with a very high rate of success, and I was very proud of that work.