Pericardial effusion in a patient with a history of cancer should always prompt a hypothesis of malignant involvement. We report the case of a 66-year-old white woman presenting with pericardial effusion 25 years after a mastectomy for ductal breast carcinoma. This is one of the cases with the latest recurrence ever reported.
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Clin Breast Cancer
December 2024
Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Electronic address:
Background: Risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) significantly lowers breast cancer risk as a preventive surgery. While racial disparities in breast cancer treatment are well-documented, research on racial differences in the utilization and outcomes of RRM is limited.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (2008-2022) to identify women who underwent RRM.
Breast J
January 2025
Department of Breast Surgery Herlev-Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Materials And Methods: This study included patients registered in the national Danish Breast Cancer Group (DBCG) database between 2001 and 2015, with locoregional LNM as well as a bilateral negative mammography, ultrasonography, and physical examination of the breasts. Overall survival (OS) and invasive disease-free survival (IDFS) were compared by treatment groups, ALND + RT (axillary lymph node dissection and radiotherapy) or ALND + MAST ± RT (axillary lymph node dissection, mastectomy with or without radiotherapy).
Results: In total, 56 patients were included in the study, of which 37 were treated by ALND + RT, 16 by ALND + MAST ± RT, and the remaining three patients receiving different treatments.
Indian J Plast Surg
December 2024
Department of Plastic Surgery, Osmania Medical College, Telangana, India.
Extensive postmastectomy defects and soft-tissue defects often require some additional flap cover of reconstruction after excision. The reconstruction aim in this group should be a diligent and easy closure with a quality skin cover, early recovery, and brief stay in hospital so that the patients can receive early postoperative radiotherapy/chemotherapy. Medially based abdominal transposition flap is a type C fasciocutaneous flap based on medial perforating vessels.
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December 2024
Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain.
Introduction And Aims: Women residing in lower socioeconomic status (SES) areas have lower breast cancer survival but it is not clear how differences in the quality of care received contribute to these disparities. We compared adherence to clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and subsequent breast cancer survival between women residing in lower versus higher SES areas.
Methods: We conducted a multicentre population-based study of all new cases of invasive breast cancer in women diagnosed 2010-2014 in six Spanish provinces with population-based cancer registries (n=3206).
In Vivo
December 2024
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland;
Background/aim: Low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) is widely employed to prevent postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE). This study aimed at analyzing LMWH use and evaluating its efficacy and safety in immediate implant-based post-mastectomy breast reconstruction.
Patients And Methods: A monocentric retrospective analysis was conducted on patients who underwent immediate implant-based breast reconstruction (IBR) from January 2021 to December 2023.
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