PURPOSE Obesity is a major public health concern in the United States, affecting nearly 79 million people. There have been promising results performing microvascular breast reconstruction in patients with obesity; however, the definition of obesity is often poorly defined or does not extend above a body mass index (BMI) of 35. Our goal was to examine outcomes of microvascular breast reconstruct...

conclusions patients receiving a cpvb in addition to tpvb after ldf reconstruction experienced similar pain to those receiving tpvb alone. a larger, randomized clinical trial is warranted to fully determine the benefits of using cpvb in addition to tpvb for this procedure. results a total of 22 patients were included in this study (11-cpvb and 11-tpvb). the mean nrs pain score of cpvb patients ...

BACKGROUND Immediate breast reconstruction results in a superior cosmetic outcome. However, immediate breast reconstruction using both prosthetic and autologous techniques is associated with significantly higher complication rates than delayed procedures. These early postoperative complications are usually related to unrecognized ischemia of mastectomy skin and/or inadequate perfusion of autolo...

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among Swedish women. The incidence has increased since the beginning of the 1970s. Simultaneously the age-standardized mortality has been relatively constant, which is probably explained by earlier tumour detection as a result of improved diagnostic methods and treatment advances. Most patients have surgery and additional therapy such as radiation...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa digital breast tomosynthesis (dbt) is a technology that creates three dimensional (3d) images of breast tissue. tomosynthesis mammography detects lesions that are not detectable with other imaging systems. if image reconstruction time is in the order of seconds, we can use tomosynthesis systems to perform tomosynthesis-guided interventional procedur...

Abstract Late spontaneous hematoma (> 6 months postoperatively) after breast reconstruction using implant is rare complication. We experienced a case of capsular contracture with unique clinical form intracapsular 13 years implantation smooth saline filled implants. This report presented the mechanism complication examined through chart-review, histological morphological analysis, and litera...