title: Subcutaneous mastectomy: indications, histological results.
abstract: This operation is made for therapeutic as well as diagnostic reasons. It is an enucleation of the mammary gland tissue under a saving of the skin and the areola. The operation is also made on women having one breast ablated: on account of the bilaterality of the carcinoma, because the symmetry of the reconstructed breast has to be realized.
mesh_terms: D001940:Breast / Q000601:surgery*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods