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Therapeutic Mammoplasty Surgical Techniques

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Surgery for breast cancer has seen a paradigm shift towards more conservation. Breast-conserving surgery is now the accepted standard of care for early breast cancer and cosmetic outcome is an important aspect which impacts the quality of life. Therapeutic mammoplasty is the use of breast reduction techniques to perform breast cancer resection, and to extend the role of breast-conserving surgery in ptotic or large-breasted women to facilitate wider resection margins, immediate symmetry and perhaps less radiation toxicity. In this chapter we describe the most commonly used methods for the same.

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Nair, N.S., Shah, J., Chitkara, G., Parmar, V. (2023). Therapeutic Mammoplasty Surgical Techniques. In: Deo, S. (eds) Breast Oncoplasty and Reconstruction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5536-7_16

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