How to Relieve Pain after Immediate Breast Reconstruction with Sub Muscular Tissue Expander
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Breast reconstruction with tissue expander is known to be the most painful procedure among breast surgical procedures and is more painful than mastectomy or axillary dissection [1]. This fact was confirmed with National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit in England in 2011 [2]. Severe pain was traditionally treated with intravenous narcotic analgesia. We are still searching for more effective non-opioid methods relieving pain in order to reduce the use of narcotics.
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