What is it about?
Stacked FlapSM breast reconstruction is used to recreate a soft, natural breast for women facing mastectomy. It is used when the tummy tissue is too thin for an ordinary DIEP or APEX Flap procedure. This produces a larger breast and allows the incision in the tummy to be kept lower in the bikini line.
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Why is it important?
The Stacked Flap allows excess living fat to be transplanted from the tummy for recreation of a new breast after mastectomy. The fat is collected from the donor site much like a tummy tuck procedure. For thin women, the Stacked Flap allows layering, or “stacking” the available amount of fat for more size and projection in the new breast. The Stacked Flapgives women with a thin abdomen a new option to restore the breast after mastectomy.
Perspectives
There are several benefits of the Stacked Flap breast reconstruction technique. The recreation of the breast with soft, warm, living fat is permanent and doesn’t require maintenance imaging or repeat surgeries. For women who’ve undergone mastectomy in the past, the Stacked Flap procedure allows a natural option besides implants for thin women.
Dr. Frank J. DellaCroce
Center for Restorative Breast Surgery
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This page is a summary of: Stacked Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap Breast Reconstruction: A Review of 110 Flaps in 55 Cases over 3 Years, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, March 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.1097/prs.0b013e318205f223.
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