Protocol for a multicentre, prospective, cohort study to investigate patient satisfaction and quality of life after immediate breast reconstruction in Japan: the SAQLA study.

Introduction: The aim of breast reconstruction (BR) is to improve patients' health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Therefore, measuring patient-reported outcomes (PROs) would clarify the value and impact of BR on a patient's life and thus would provide evidence-based information to help decision-making. The Satisfaction and Quality of Life After Immediate Breast Reconstruction study aimed to investigate satisfaction and HRQOL in Japanese patients with breast cancer who undergo immediate breast reconstruction (IBR).

Efficacy of distraction osteogenesis for mandibular reconstruction in previously irradiated areas: clinical experiences.

The efficacy of distraction osteogenesis in an irradiated area is controversial, although this procedure is now widely used in the field of craniomaxillofacial surgery. We report the clinical results from 4 patients with mandibular defects treated by lengthening of the irradiated mandibles. All patients had a mandibular defect caused by ablation of a malignant tumor.

Reconstruction of a severe maxillofacial deformity after tumorectomy and irradiation using distraction osteogenesis and LeFort I osteotomy before vascularized bone graft.

We present the successful reconstruction of a large mandibular defect with a severe maxillofacial deformity after malignant tumor resection and irradiation. The patient was a 16-year-old boy with a defect in the left mandible, which extended from the mandibular body to the condylar process and hypoplasia of the maxillozygomatic complex on the left side as a result of ablation and radiotherapy of a grown rhabdomyosarcoma in the left infratemporal fossa at the age of 10. We planned a two-stage reconstruction because of his wide mandibular defect and hypoplasia.