your medical team will need to prepare your chest tissue for the final reconstruction. Surgeons will place a tissue expander underneath your chest wall muscles to slowly expand the tissue in ...

If you have tissue expander placement and tissue-based reconstruction, we will also prescribe antibiotics to prevent infection while your surgical drains are in place. Your surgical drains will keep ...

Another consideration in selecting implant reconstruction ... This stretching process, or tissue expansion, is accomplished by placement of an inflatable tissue expander beneath the chest wall ...