[Breast reconstruction after mastectomy and breast implants. Current status in the USA].
The author review breast reconstruction after mastectomy for cancer, taking account the technical progress and problems raised by breast implants over the last twenty years. Immediate breast reconstruction has become a routine clinical practice. The principle, indications and complications of reconstruction techniques are presented: temporary expansion prosthesis, permanent expansion prosthesis, latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap associated with an implant, rectus abdominis myocutaneous pedicle flap, free flaps.
Division of Plastic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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D019928:Breast Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016462:Mammaplasty; D015409:Mastectomy, Radical; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States
Reconstruction mammaire après mastectomie et prothèses mammaires. Etat de la situation aux Etats-Unis.