PMID: 7546840Jan 1, 1995Paper

Breast reconstruction

Acta Oncologica
K van Smitten

Abstract

Breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer has usually been performed as a delayed procedure, often not less than one year after completion of postoperative radiation therapy and cytotoxic chemotherapy. The reason for delaying the procedure has been the increased risk of wound complications after the adjuvant therapy. The reconstruction has been even further delayed for patients with increased risk of recurrence in order to avoid a reconstruction 'in vain' for a patient, who will succumb to the disease within a couple of years after the reconstruction. The breast reconstruction can also be performed immediately in conjunction with the mastectomy. The rather slow acceptance of this procedure has mainly been for practical reasons. The mastectomies are usually performed by general surgeons. The operation has not been centralized to larger hospitals, and the patients usually want to have the operation performed as soon as possible. It is therefore often difficult to arrange a joint operation by the general and the plastic surgeons. In addition, suspicions have been raised that enlargement of the dissection area could spread cancer and increase the risk of local metastases. The same types of operation can be used for d...Continue Reading

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Citations

Nov 25, 2000·The British Journal of Surgery·C M MalataA D Purushotham
Nov 4, 2010·Scandinavian Journal of Surgery : SJS : Official Organ for the Finnish Surgical Society and the Scandinavian Surgical Society·Z RadovanovicA Mandic

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