How does one know for sure

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That all the capsule was removed ...just by the doctors word ?

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I would never trust the doctors word. I have always recommended that after explant you contact your doctor and ask for the operative report. Just tell them you would like a copy for your files. This report will describe in detail what the doctor did during the surgery. It is required (by law?) for all surgeries. It is part of your medical record. So, once you get your report, you look at it carefully for the description of what the doctor did once he cut you open. You would look for a specific discussion of what he did regarding the capsule, because they have to cut through it to get to the implant, unless they do an en bloc removal, which they did in my case. My discussion says this:

"....The knife was used to incise through the skin into the subcutaneous tissue and the Bovie is used to achieve hemostasis and continue dissection down to the breast capsule. The capsules were both followed around their entire perimeters to completely excise the capsules."

Only in this way can you know for certain what the doctor did, and I would imagine it would be accurate.

Patty

How does one know for sure

That all the capsule was removed ...just by the doctors word ?

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The pathology reports are also very helpful in

determining what tissue was removed.

Lynda

At 07:19 PM 12/10/2006, you wrote:

>,

>I would never trust the doctors word. I have

>always recommended that after explant you

>contact your doctor and ask for the operative

>report. Just tell them you would like a copy

>for your files. This report will describe in

>detail what the doctor did during the

>surgery. It is required (by law?) for all

>surgeries. It is part of your medical

>record. So, once you get your report, you look

>at it carefully for the description of what the

>doctor did once he cut you open. You would look

>for a specific discussion of what he did

>regarding the capsule, because they have to cut

>through it to get to the implant, unless they do

>an en bloc removal, which they did in my case. My discussion says this:

>

> " ....The knife was used to incise through the

>skin into the subcutaneous tissue and the Bovie

>is used to achieve hemostasis and continue

>dissection down to the breast capsule. The

>capsules were both followed around their entire

>perimeters to completely excise the capsules. "

>

>Only in this way can you know for certain what

>the doctor did, and I would imagine it would be accurate.

>Patty

>

> How does one know for sure

>

>That all the capsule was removed ...just by the doctors word ?

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