Mastectomy is when all breast tissue is removed. In appropriately selected patients, the surgeon may be able to conserve some of the skin and/or nipple normally lost during a mastectomy. The choice of ...

Skin-sparing mastectomy refers to the maximum preservation of the patient's own breast skin with removal of only the nipple-areola complex and any skin involved with or close to the tumor.

Design of skin incisions for 48-year -old female before planned skin-sparing left modified radical mastectomy and right prophylactic mastectomy. Figure 2b. Silicone tissue expanders, inserted at ...