Mrs Fawzia Imtiaz-Crosbie
MBBS, MSC, FRCS
Consultant Breast Surgeon
Mrs Imtiaz-Crosbie is a Consultant Breast Surgeon. Her interests are all aspects of breast cancer surgery, both screen detected and symptomatic as well as benign breast disease.
She is also able to provide a family history and genetic testing service and risk reducing surgery as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Mrs Imtiaz-Crosbie provides immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy as well as therapeutic mammaplasty in the setting of breast conservation surgery , all with contralateral symmetrisation.
She works collaboratively with eminent Consultant plastic surgeons from the Royal Free Hospital to offer the best of breast cancer surgery and aesthetic surgery to all patients.
Mrs Imtiaz-Crosbie qualified from University College London and The Middlesex Medical School.
She undertook an MSc investigating the role of matrix metalloproteases in wound healing.
Her higher specialist training in surgery was on the Chelsea and Westminster rotation culminating in an Oncoplastic fellowship at The Royal Marsden Hospital.
Hospital Locations
Royal Free Hospital
Year qualified
1993
Country of qualification
UK
Languages spoken
English
Specialities
- Breast Surgery
Memberships
- British Medical Association
- General Medical Council
- Medical Protection Society
Registration and licensing
GMC:4035543
Procedures offered
- Auxiliary node biopsy
- Breast reduction surgery (Reduction mammoplasty)
- Core biopsy of lesion of breast
- Drainage of breast abscess
- Excision biopsy of breast lesion after localization
- Excision of breast lump
- Excision of mammary fistula
- Fine needle aspiration
- Implantation of prosthesis into breast
- Mastectomy (radical and simple)
- Mastectomy for gynaecomastia
- Mastectomy and immediate reconstruction of breast using fixed or expandable prosthesis/implant
- Microdochotomy
- Microductectomy or mammodochectomy
- Modified radical mastectomy with/without lymph node sample
- Nipple and areola reconstruction
- Percutaneous biopsy of lesion of breast
- Prophylactic mastectomy
- Re-excision of lesion of breast
- Reconstruction of breast using fixed or expandable prosthesis (including delayed reconstruction)
- Removal of prosthesis/implant from breast (including capsulectomy)
- Segmental resection or quadrantectomy
- Sentinel node mapping and sampling with blue dye or radioactive probe for breast cancer
- Skin/nipple sparing mastectomy
- Therapeutic mammoplasty for breast cancer
- Wide local excision of lesion of breast (lumpectomy)
- Unilateral mastopexy (following reconstruction)
Clinical interests
- Benign Breast disease
- Day Case mastectomy without drains
- Family History and Genetic testing for Breast cancer
- Immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy
- Oncoplastic breast conservation
- Risk reduction surgery
- Screen detected breast cancer
- Symmetrisation surgery
- Therapeutic mammoplasty
Research interests
- The Role of Matrixmetalloproteinases in Surgical Adhesion formation and wound healing
- Genetics of Breast Cancer