[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.
Bostwick
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Division of Plastic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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.