Breast Surgeons and Oncoplastic Surgery
Breast surgeons utilizing oncoplastic techniques is commonplace in the United Kingdom, Europe, and parts of South America. In Canada and the United States, the adoption of oncoplastic surgery by breast…
Indications and Patient Selection for Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
Introduction The newly diagnosed breast cancer patient and her interdisciplinary treatment team must address both the local control (breast) and systemic control (body) issues to minimize the risk of recurrence….
Oncoplasty versus Mastectomy: Decisions and Outcomes
Introduction As reconstructive techniques have improved, patient expectations have evolved. From the simplest to the most complex resection, patients expect to be satisfied with their final esthetic result. Trying to…
Introduction to Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
Oncoplastic breast surgery has become a common option for women with breast cancer. Oncoplastic surgery is defined as tumor excision with a wide margin of resection followed by immediate or…
Safety of Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction
Introduction Historically, early stage breast cancer has been treated with either mastectomy or breast conservation therapy (local tumor excision with adjuvant radiation therapy). Clinicopathologic characteristics such as tumor size and…
Principles of Diagnosis and Anatomy
Key Wordsskin disease, nodules, vesicles, hives, scales, ulcers, milia, comedo, comedones, excoriation, cyst Skin Anatomy The skin is divided into three layers: the epidermis, the dermis, and the subcutaneous…
Benign Skin Tumors
Key Wordsskin tumors, seborrheic keratosis, cysts, syringoma, keratoacanthoma, chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis, skin tag, melanoma mimic, sebaceous hyperplasia, nevus sebaceus, keloid, dermatosis papulosa nigra, acrochordon Seborrheic Keratosis Seborrheic keratosis (SK)…
Premalignant and Malignant Nonmelanoma Skin Tumors
Key Wordspremalignant, nonmelanoma, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, Merkel cell carcinoma, actinic keratosis, actinic cheilitis, leukoplakia, lymphoma, T-cell lymphoma, Sézary syndrome, Bowen disease, Paget disease, in situ, biopsy, Mohs…
Nevi and Malignant Melanoma
Key Wordsnevi, malignant melanoma, atypical nevus, dysplastic nevus, blue nevus, speckled lentiginous nevus, halo nevus, moles, ABCDs of melanoma, lentigo, dermatofibroma Melanocytic Nevi Nevi, or moles, are benign tumors…
Nail Diseases
Key Wordsnail diseases, nail psoriasis, nail lichen planus, fungal nail infection, onychomycosis, leukonychia, nail ridging, nail splitting, nail dystrophy, spoon nails, acute paronychia, nail tinea, subungual hematoma, Beau lines …
