Breast Diagnostics and Oncoplastic Surgery
- Pioneered the concept of ‘single stage immediate breast reconstruction with expandable prosthesis’ in India.
- Incorporated all cosmetic breast surgical procedures in practice to the benefit of breast cancer patients and developed proficiency in procedures such as breast reduction, breast augmentation and nipple-areola reconstruction.
- First in India to introduce procedures such as Breast Conserving Surgery, Oncoplastic Surgery, Sentinel Node Biopsy, Mammotome, Vacuum Assisted Biopsy, etc. in India
- Performed and established protocol for conservative breast cancer surgeries since 1994, was the first in Pune and one of the first pioneers in the country to adopt this procedure
- Established procedures for management of non-palpable lesions of breast for the first time in 1995, again one of the pioneers to adopt the procedures
- Performed more than 2000 breast surgeries till date including more than 900 oncoplastic surgeries, above 200 breast reconstructions & above 850 sentinel node excisions