title: Surgical treatment of local recurrences of breast carcinoma in the skin and subcutaneous tissues.
abstract: Twenty-six cases of local recurrence of breast carcinoma in the skin and subcutaneous tissues after treatment with radical excision and large skin grafts or reconstruction are presented. Seventy-seven per cent of the patients were alive 2 years after the treatment. As a chest wall recurrence of breast cancer in the absence of distant metastases does not always indicate a generalization of the disease, radical reconstructive surgery is recommended as the therapy of choice.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
chemical_list: D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes