Conversion of Breast Implants into Natural Breast Reconstruction: Evaluating Lipofilled Mini Dorsi Flap.

Background: Autologous reconstruction techniques can provide a long-lasting natural breast reconstruction for patients. This study aimed to further investigate outcomes in the conversion of breast implant reconstruction into a lipofilled mini dorsi flap, focusing on reviewing its techniques, efficiency, and final results.

Methods: Over 3 years, we performed a number of breast implant replacements via the lipofilled mini dorsi flap technique.

Lipofilled Mini Dorsi Flap: An Efficient Less Invasive Concept for Immediate Breast Reconstruction.

Introduction: The traditional extended latissimus dorsi flap technique, in addition to lipofilling, has been one of the main procedures used for breast reconstruction after mastectomy. However, to obtain excellent results, this technique requires a large muscle harvest and further lipofilling sessions. The lipofilled mini dorsi flap technique, performed in a single operation, appealed to us as a way to improve the traditional technique.

Oncological Safety of Lipofilling in Healthy BRCA Carriers After Bilateral Prophylactic Mastectomy: A Case Series.

Objective: The germline breast cancer gene (BRCA) mutation confers a lifetime high risk for breast cancer (BC) and bilateral prophylactic mastectomy is the procedure which allows the highest risk reduction rate. Among other techniques, lipofilling (LF) can be used for breast reconstruction of these patients. However, there are some oncological safety concerns on the subject.

Surgical Management of Benign and Borderline Phyllodes Tumors of the Breast.

Phyllodes tumors (PT) are uncommon fibroepithelial breast neoplasms and there is currently no clear consensual treatment for these tumors. The aim of our study was to evaluate the surgical management and outcome of benign and borderline PT. We retrospectively assessed 76 cases of benign or borderline PT managed at the Leon Berard comprehensive cancer center in Lyon, France between July 2003 and December 2013.

[Metastatic screening before adjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer].

Introduction: Systematic metastasis staging in early breast cancer is no longer recommended. However, it is still performed before adjuvant chemotherapy.

Materials And Methods: We assessed metastasis screening of asymptomatic women with a local breast cancer without lymph node involvement when adjuvant chemotherapy was indicated.

Pyoderma gangrenosum: an exceptional complication of venous access device.

Introduction: Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare disease whose precise etiology remains unknown. It causes rapidly developing skin necrosis and can occur after surgery, or after a nonspecific external stimulus. This condition is difficult to diagnose because it often mimics a fulminant infection.

Percutaneous fasciotomies and fat grafting: indications for breast surgery.

Background: The management of breast deformities can be very difficult in the presence of breast shape retraction. Percutaneous fasciotomies, which release fibrous strings, can be a very useful tool for shape improvement in the recipient site for a fat graft.

Objectives: The authors evaluate the efficacy of fasciotomies in association with fat grafting in breast surgery.

Breast asymmetry and pectus excavatum improvement with fat grafting.

Background: In women, pectus excavatum malformation can cause modified breast morphology, resulting in mammary asymmetry, which can be increased by placing mammary implants alone. Fat transfer can be an elegant solution to increase the volume and projection of the breast.

Objectives: The authors discuss their experience treating pectus excavatum with fat transfer (lipomodeling) since 2000.

Tuberous breast correction by fat grafting.

Introduction: Tuberous breast is a rare malformation that has negative physical and psychological impacts during puberty. A range of surgical techniques has been used to correct breast shape and volume in this context, including a combination of skin plasty and mammary gland remodeling, as well as prostheses and locoregional flaps. The authors have used fat grafting as a complementary technique to correct tuberous breasts since 1998.

Breast amputation correction of a horse bite using the lipomodeling technique.

Unlabelled: Mammary gland development is an important phase of puberty, and it marks the passage into adulthood for women, so any trauma leading to mammary deformities has an important physical and psychological impact. Often, classic techniques are difficult to use in the treatment of traumatic breast lesions. In this article, the authors present an exceptional case of breast reshaping by lipomodeling in a teenage patient who had experienced a horse bite.