I quickly ran this scenario past the breast surgeon I was working with today, and she said that two other possibilities to consider are if the patient is *VERY* fair-skinned this might be a variation of normal, or maybe she's having some kind of reaction to the suture material that was used... but infection would certainly be her first guess. -Sarah Reece-Stremtan M.D. *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html