title: Detecting breast cancer after reduction mammoplasty.
abstract: Reductive breast surgery may give rise to parenchymal scarring that makes subsequent clinical and radiologic assessment of tumours difficult. The features that help distinguish benign from malignant lesions are discussed. Biopsy is still necessary. A screening protocol that includes preoperative mammography in patients at increased risk is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Clugston
authors.forename: Q R
authors.initials: QR
authors.lastname: Son-Hing
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: MacFarlane
mesh_terms: D001940:Breast / Q000601:surgery*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000009:adverse effects*