ALLMedicine™ Breast Reconstruction Center

Apr 9th, 2021 - In an attempt to reduce the incidence of infectious complications after tissue expander-based breast reconstruction, the routine administration of postoperative antibiotics regimen is common in many practices. In recent years, there has been a ple...

Apr 9th, 2021 - Breast reconstruction in the prepectoral plane has recently fallen into favor. Minimizing the number of revisionary procedures after reconstruction is an important factor in improving patient care, but long-term studies on the effects of prepector...

Apr 9th, 2021 - Nipple-areolar complex (NAC) tattooing remains a simple and safe procedure, which complements breast reconstruction. This study reviews 11 years of NAC tattooing to identify risk factors for tattoo-related complications. Patients undergoing NAC ta...

Apr 9th, 2021 - Radiation therapy is a known risk factor for capsular contracture formation after implant-based breast reconstruction. Although autologous fat grafting (AFG) has been shown to reverse radiation-induced tissue fibrosis, its use as a prophylactic ag...

Apr 9th, 2021 - An increasing number of women are choosing to undergo contralateral prophylactic mastectomy with immediate bilateral breast reconstruction. Operating on the contralateral noncancer side is not without its own set of risks. We sought to compare com...

Nov 6th, 2020 - Mastectomy may be performed to treat breast cancer or as a prophylactic approach in women with a high risk of developing breast cancer. In addition, mastectomies may be performed with or without reconstruction. Reconstruction approaches differ and...

May 20th, 2019 - Immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) rates after mastectomy are increasing. Postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) contouring guidelines for target volumes in the setting of IBR are lacking. Therefore, many patients who have had IBR receive PMRT...

Nov 5th, 2017 - Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women in the United States. Breast reconstruction surgery is a commonly used therapy for patients with breast cancer. The technique for the deep inferior epigastric perforator flap uses a preserved re...

Oct 31st, 2017 - Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women in the United States. Breast reconstruction surgery is a commonly used therapy for patients with breast cancer.

Oct 26th, 2017 - The American Society of Plastic Surgeons commissioned a multistakeholder Work Group to develop recommendations for autologous breast reconstruction with abdominal flaps. A systematic literature review was performed and a stringent appraisal proces...

Apr 9th, 2021 - In an attempt to reduce the incidence of infectious complications after tissue expander-based breast reconstruction, the routine administration of postoperative antibiotics regimen is common in many practices. In recent years, there has been a ple...

Apr 9th, 2021 - Breast reconstruction in the prepectoral plane has recently fallen into favor. Minimizing the number of revisionary procedures after reconstruction is an important factor in improving patient care, but long-term studies on the effects of prepector...

Apr 9th, 2021 - Nipple-areolar complex (NAC) tattooing remains a simple and safe procedure, which complements breast reconstruction. This study reviews 11 years of NAC tattooing to identify risk factors for tattoo-related complications. Patients undergoing NAC ta...

Apr 9th, 2021 - Radiation therapy is a known risk factor for capsular contracture formation after implant-based breast reconstruction. Although autologous fat grafting (AFG) has been shown to reverse radiation-induced tissue fibrosis, its use as a prophylactic ag...

Apr 9th, 2021 - An increasing number of women are choosing to undergo contralateral prophylactic mastectomy with immediate bilateral breast reconstruction. Operating on the contralateral noncancer side is not without its own set of risks. We sought to compare com...

Date Issued: March 31, 2021 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing patients, caregivers, and health care providers that certain acellular dermal matrix (ADM) products used in implant-based breast reconstruction may have a higher ...

Feb 4th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most women who received a mastectomy and decided to "go flat" rather than undergo breast reconstruction reported that they were happy with their surgeries, according to a team of surgeons and oncologists. As part of a g...

Dec 21st, 2020 - Numerous studies have demonstrated that textured breast implants predispose women who undergo breast reconstruction to breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Now, an analysis of new data from a cohort study of 650 women who unde...

Nov 26th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long-term oncologic outcomes following neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer are similar with immediate breast reconstruction and conventional mastectomy alone, regardless of response to chemo, according to a retro...

Aug 30th, 2019 - Incidence of breast cancer recurrence in the nipple-areola complex (NAC) following nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) and immediate breast reconstruction was extremely limited over the long term, Korean investigators found, and cancers that did recur...