The real wonder of plastic surgery is the possibility of building skin and tissue, to reconstruct areas of the body damaged by trauma, surgical excision (for example for cancers), or to repair congenital abnormalities.
Transforming People's Lives
Procedures
Breast Reconstruction
Skin Reconstruction
Hand surgery
Transforming People's Lives
The skill of the reconstructive surgeon lies in working at microscopic level with nerves and vessels to build living tissue. Reconstructive surgery can’t grow a new finger or breast, but drawing on the precision of the surgeon and the dedication of the patient, tissue can be built that will pass as closely as possible in form and function to the damaged parts.
These remarkable procedures involve all aspects of microvascular and microneural repair, free tissue transfer and replantation.
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Procedures
At CAER your consultant Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon Margaret Strick has a particular commitment to reconstructive surgery, continually refining her practise across all aspects of this super-skilled field.
She offers three particular areas of expertise:
Breast reconstruction
Margaret Strick has extensive experience of breast reconstructive surgery following mastectomy, using perforator based free flaps or implants:
- implant, expander implant
- Latissimus Dorsi flap
- Autologous Dorsi flap
- TRAM (Trans-Rectus Abdominis Muscle) flap
- DIEP flap (Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator)
- nipple reconstruction
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Skin reconstruction
Cosmetically sensitive reconstruction following the excision of skin cancers (melanoma, basal cell carcinoma (rodent ulcer), squamous cell carcinoma, lentigo, lentigo maligna). The following procedures are used:
- local flaps
- full thickness skin grafts
- split skin grafts,
- distant flaps
- free flaps, anatomical unit grafting
- composite grafts
- scar revision
Hand surgery
Reconstructive hand surgery concerns the repair and functionality of the hand following trauma or associated with the following:
- rheumatoid arthritis
- osteoarthritis
- nerve compression syndromes including carpal tunnel syndrome
- joint replacement
- Dupuytrens disease including needle fasciotomy
- tumours
- ganglions
- injuries relating to musicians' use of their hands
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