Publications by authors named "A J Stolier"
Background: Patients with moderate to severe ptosis are often considered poor candidates for nipple-sparing mastectomy. This results from the perceived risk of nipple necrosis and/or the inability of the reconstructive surgeon to reliably and effectively reposition the nipple-areola complex on the breast mound after mastectomy.
Methods: A retrospective review identified patients with grade II/III ptosis who underwent nipple-sparing mastectomy with immediate perforator flap reconstruction and subsequently underwent a mastopexy procedure.
Background: The aim of this study was to determine the evolution in treatment recommendations and outcomes for patients with subcentimeter, node-negative, triple-negative disease.
Methods: Patients were divided into a remote (diagnosed from 1997 to 2003) and a recent (diagnosed from 2004 to 2011) group. Demographics, tumor size, surgical treatment, use of adjuvant chemotherapy, survival, and disease recurrence were evaluated.
Background: Recent evolutions of oncologic breast surgery and reconstruction now allow surgeons to offer the appropriate patients a single-stage, autologous tissue reconstruction with the least donor-site morbidity. The authors present their series of buried free flaps in nipple-sparing mastectomies as proof of concept, and to explore indications, techniques, and early outcomes from their series.
Methods: From 2001 to 2011, a total of 2262 perforator-based free flaps for breast reconstruction were reviewed from the authors' prospectively maintained database.
Optimizing cosmesis is a common goal of breast surgery. In support of immediate breast reconstruction, nipple-sparing techniques have evolved. There is still a lack of agreement on the optimal technique and skin flap necrosis can be problematic.
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