McIndoe Dressing Forceps 15cm — Breast Reconstruction

McIndoe Dressing Forceps — 15cm Breast Reconstruction

The 15cm-labelled McIndoe is the breast-reconstruction-tray standard, used in DIEP flap, TRAM flap, latissimus-dorsi flap, and implant-based reconstruction procedures. Breast reconstruction has become one of the highest-volume reconstructive procedures in modern plastic surgery, with approximately 100,000 procedures per year in the United States alone — and the McIndoe forceps is the standard tissue handler across the variants.

DIEP flap breast reconstruction

The Deep-Inferior-Epigastric-Perforator (DIEP) flap takes abdominal skin and fat (without sacrificing rectus muscle) to reconstruct a breast after mastectomy. The microvascular anastomosis between the DIEP pedicle and the internal-mammary recipient vessels is the critical technical step; the McIndoe forceps handles the delicate perforator dissection and the recipient-site preparation. The 15cm length keeps the operator working at the chest wall without hand-in-field issues.

Why the cm convention here

North American plastic surgery training uses cm-labelling throughout; the cm-labelled SKU matches that convention. The 150mm-labelled equivalent (DF 03-85-01) serves European plastic-surgery markets.