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Anonymous
7 years agoNot applicable
Encapsulated seroma
I had a tram with immediate recon in Dec 2012. In May this year, I had to have the mesh repaired and now have an encapsulated seroma that needs surgical removal. Has anyone any experience with this? I...
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Afraser
7 years agoMember
Not as far as I know! My surgeon opened the original mastectomy scar and gave me what he described as as 'a good scrub out' and closed along the same! I healed very fast from the mastectomy and from the second surgery with no complications (apart of course from the seroma after the first surgery!). Problem with a lot of fluid is that it's a nice warm nutritious bath for bacteria (internal ones we all have) and mine had been cooking away for some time. I was also truly over the sloshing noise when I bent over. However, as noted, i had no reconstruction so my mastectomy scar was long but relatively uncomplicated.
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