Introduction: This study analyzes postoperative course of different immediate breast reconstruction techniques: deep inferior epigastric perforator flap (DIEP), gracilis, latissimus dorsi flap, expander implants and definitive implants.
Methods: All women operated on IBR between 2012 and 2017 in the CHU Strasbourg were included in this retrospective study. The main data collected were healing time, complications, surgical revisions and failure rates.
Introduction: The purpose of this study is to evaluate patients' satisfaction after immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) according to the surgical technique.
Methods: Included patients had an IBR between 2012 and 2017 and finished their reconstruction since a year. Patients were contacted by phone and their satisfaction was evaluated with the Breast Q questionnaire.
Oncoplastic surgery is to treat breast tumors with the help of plastic surgery. Efficiency of breast-conserving treatments (BCT) compared to mastectomies is equivalent. BCT is better accepted but can cause breast deformity, thus further operations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The objective of our study was to evaluate the risk of cancer after prophylactic nipple-sparing mastectomy (PNSM).
Material And Methods: The PubMed database was consulted using the following key-words: "nipple-sparing mastectomy", "prophylactic", "locoregional recurrence", "oncological risk". Articles published between January 1995 and December 2016 were searched.