Infection is a common complication of immediate breast reconstruction that often leads to device removal, a result emotionally devastating to the patient and frustrating for her surgeon. "No-touch" techniques have been used in other surgical disciplines and plastic surgery, but they have not been reported for breast reconstruction with tissue expanders or implants and acellular dermis. We repor...

INTRODUCTION: External beam radiation in the mantle field has been a mainstay of therapy for Hodgkin’s lymphoma for several decades. While the incidence of breast cancer in patients treated with mantle radiation is known to be elevated and mastectomy is often indicated, little has been reported regarding the outcomes of breast reconstruction in this high-risk group. The current study presents t...

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 under...

OBJECTIVES For healthy women at high risk of developing breast cancer, a bilateral mastectomy can reduce future risk. For women who already have unilateral breast cancer, removing the contralateral healthy breast is more difficult to justify. We examined trends in the number of women who had a bilateral mastectomy in England between 2002 and 2011. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using the H...

OBJECTIVE In this work, the authors review recent data on the different methods and techniques of TE/implant-based reconstruction to determine the complication profiles and the advantages and disadvantages of the different techniques. This information will be valuable for surgeons performing breast reconstructions. MATERIALS AND METHODS A thorough literature review was conducted by the author...