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The Postoperative Breast

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Surgical interventions in the breast include excisional biopsy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, reduction, and augmentation. There are expected benign postsurgical changes following these interventions. These benign imaging findings may overlap with radiographic features of malignancy or obscure tumor recurrence. Awareness of normal postoperative imaging changes correlated with prior procedural history and time that has elapsed since those procedures is important for increasing accurate early detection of breast cancer or tumor recurrence in patients with history of breast cancer.

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Sepulveda, K.A., Ebuoma, L.O. (2015). The Postoperative Breast. In: Shetty, M. (eds) Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1267-4_16

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