Hybrid Breast Reconstruction

Hybrid Breast Reconstruction: Preliminary Report

Breast Reconstruction Information TIMING OF BREAST RECONSTRUCTION

Current trends towards less radical surgery for breast cancer, preserving the pectoralis major muscle and overlying skin, along with better reconstructive techniques, have made breast reconstruction at the time of mastectomy a standard procedure. All of the reconstructive techniques traditionally available can be safely performed in the immediate setting. Several studies have shown that the add...

Tendency to breast reconstruction after breast mastectomy among Iranian women with breast cancer

  Background: Women with the medical history of breast cancer constitute the biggest group of patients who survived cancer. Despite the high rate of mastectomy after breast cancer in Iran only limited patients elect reconstruction surgery. The aim of our study was to evaluate the rate of tendency to breast reconstruction (BR) surgery among women with breast cancer who had mastectomy but not und...

Breast reconstruction.

The majority of women who are undergoing mastectomy can also have breast reconstruction. In most breast units, implants and latissimus dorsi flaps can be performed. The more sophisticated transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap-based reconstructions are generally performed by plastic surgeons so that there may be logistic problems in using these techniques for immediate reconstruct...

Breast Reconstruction

Breast cancer is one of the most common diseases treated by general and plastic surgeons. Reconstruction of the breast began in the 1960s with the invention of the silicone breast implant. Since then, breast reconstruction has undergone an evolution. It is possible to add a woman’s own tissue to enhance an implant reconstruction, as in the latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap, but often autologou...