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Hi Laurie,
I'm not sure I'm following you. The DIEP procedure does not remove the muscle but the tram procedure does. Why would he have to remove the muscle? We did talk about both options and he said if I got a second opinion and was told they wanted to do a tram on me he felt that would not be a good opinion as he said he would never do that. He said I was a good candidate for DIEP - he listened to my artery in my abdomen which sounded good and before the procedure is done I will have a special kind of CT scan of abdomen to find this artery before the surgery. He says that saves time while in surgery knowing exactly where this artery is.
Anyway, please explain further and thank you.
Mary Jo
P.S. Sorry for the jumbled paragraph above. I don't think I explained myself very well.
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