During a nipple-sparing mastectomy, the breast tissue is removed, while all of the skin and the nipple and areola are left intact. During skin-sparing mastectomy, the nipple and areola are removed ...

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.

So traditionally, today, we would perform what's called a skin sparing mastectomy, where we try to leave as much skin behind as possible so that the plastic surgeon has it for the reconstruction.

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 ...