Today’s demographic of the breast reconstruction patient is younger, often prophylactic or at an early stage of diagnosis, and is more likely to be bilateral. These factors combined with an…
Breast cancer surgical treatment nowadays includes oncoplastic surgery. It is a reliable oncologic surgical treatment, which also prevents functional and aesthetic sequelae, thus improving the patient’s quality of life and…
This article aims to determine the impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on immediate breast reconstruction by assessing their compatibility for oncological safety and the incidence and management of postoperative complications. A…
Patients who undergo breast reconstruction experience higher complication rates if they have had a history of radiotherapy. However, implant-based reconstruction confers significantly higher complication and reconstruction failure rates compared with…
The armamentarium of the modern breast surgeon includes the time-tested procedures of modified radical mastectomy and lumpectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy with postoperative radiation, but has evolved to include…
CLINICS IN PLASTIC SURGERY www.plasticsurgery.theclinics.com January 2018 • Volume 45 • Number 1 Related posts: Radiation Therapy and Immediate Breast Reconstruction Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer Treatment and the Evidence-Based…
