introduction the first medical intervention for many breast cancer patients is breast conserving surgery (bcs) and/or modified radical mastectomy (mrm). most of these patients undergo radiation therapy, following surgery. the most common side-effect of breast radiotherapy is skin damage. in the present study, the severity of acute skin changes and the underlying causes were investigated in pati...

fibroadenoma is the most common benign mass of breast in females 20-50 years of age. juvenile fibroadenoma accounts for only 4% of total fibroadenomas. moreover, the incidence of giant juvenile fibroadenoma is found to be only 0.5% of all fibroadenomas. a 15-year-old woman at the 12th week of gestation was referred to the shahid sadoughi hospital, yazd, iran because of a mass in the right breas...

background combined procedures involving elective breast surgery at the time of abdominoplasty are frequently performed procedures in aesthetic plastic surgery. while found to be safe outpatient procedures, many surgeons elect to perform combined abdominoplasty/breast surgery as inpatient surgery. this study was performed to explore the practice of performing the combined procedure as an inpati...

background dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (dce - mri) has been widely used in the management of breast cancer, and its diagnostic value in breast imaging has been demonstrated. there have only been a few reports regarding the usefulness of pre-contrast imaging. knowledge about clinically significant findings of preoperative, pre-contrast t1 and t2 mr images will allow more...

background post-mastectomy breast reconstruction is commonly performed in the united states with numerous options available to patients and providers. this study evaluated patient race and provider in prediction of patient satisfaction following post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. methods the patient satisfaction for women who underwent post mastectomy breast reconstruction at university of ...

background: quality of life (qol) is becoming an important indicator of treatment efficacy in patients with breast cancer. most previous studies have compared patients' qol following breast conserving surgery (bcs) and mastectomy with or without reconstruction. our aim was to assess the impact of bcs versus oncoplastic breast surgery (obs). methods: selection of patients for bcs or obs was perf...

in females, the most common cancer is breast carcinoma in which squamous cell carcinoma (scc) is a rare type of malignancy. histologically, infiltrating ductal carcinoma is the most common type and lobular, mucinous, and medullary types have lower incidence. pure scc of the breast can originate from the skin, nipple, or epithelium of a deep‑seated dermoid cyst or squamous metaplasia on chronic ...

background: modified radical mastectomy (mrm), as a surgical treatment in breast cancer patients, may lead to important complications with significant morbidities including seroma formation. in this study, we used topical phenytoin to evaluate its impact on breast and axillary wound drainage and seroma formation after mrm. methods: in a double-blinded randomized clinical trial, patients with br...

background: acute postoperative pain is an important surgical side effect that may delay patient discharge in ambulatory operations; moreover, the strategies used to alleviate pain may cause side effects that require longer hospitalization to recover. in this clinical trial, we compared two current anesthetic methods with special concerns about postoperative pain intensity beside other importan...

oncoplastic breast surgery (obs) has gained widespread acceptance during the last two decades as an integral component of breast cancer surgery. obs combines oncological principles of breast cancer surgery with plastic surgery techniques to provide the best cosmetic results without compromising oncological outcome of breast cancer treatment and it has opened up the possibility to perform breast...