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Fig. 7.1 Operative room layout for performing V-NSM with hand retractor Fig. 7.2 The surgical team performing V-NSM with hand retractor: the surgeon stands at the same site of the diseased breast…

Fig. 8.1 E.B, 45 years old, healthy BRCA2+, bilateral V-NSM with immediate one-step prosthesis reconstruction. a–b Preoperative frontal and lateral view. c–d Frontal and lateral view 9 months after intervention: cosmetic criticism…

Fig. 1.1 Dr William Halsted (1852–1922) photographed by John H. Stocksdale (1922) [From: Images from the History of Medicine—National Library of Medicine, NIH; this item has no reserved right] Fig. 1.2 Table…

Fig. 6.1 Complete laparoscopic column Endoscopes The endoscope is the instrument that has the delicate duty of extending the human eye into anatomical cavity and collecting the images to guide the…

Fig. 9.1 First V-NSM we performed in Pavia, Italy. Technique with the aid of a retractor. a–b the èquipe during intervention follows dissection of the breast under the guidance of a…

Fig. 2.1 Breast anatomy and position on the breast wall. (From [1]) The normal mature non-lactating female breast weighs 200 g on average (range 30 g to greater than 500 g), whereas the lactating…

Fig. 4.1 Cosmetic outcome 1 year after left video-assisted nipple sparing mastectomy for breast cancer in a 59-year-old-patient with medium/large, grade III ptosis (advanced ptosis: the nipple is below the inframammary fold…

Author Study design Patients (n) Local recurrence (%) NAC recurrence (%) Median follow up (month) Gerber et al. [43] Prospective 112 5.4 % NSM, 8.2 % MRM (P = 0.6) 0.9 % 59 Petit et…