title: Overview: video-assisted breast surgery.
abstract: Since 1992, video-assisted surgery for the breast has been developed mainly in the field of plastic surgery, notably in breast augmentation surgery. Today, video-assisted surgery, indicating partial or total endoscopic surgery, can be performed for the treatment of both benign and malignant breast tumors to improve the cosmetic outcome. Although, in some respects, this kind of surgery for malignant tumors is still experimental, it is feasible enough for clinical use, and is expected to become one of the standard operations for breast cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2-E10, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. tamaki@onsurg.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tamaki
authors.forename: Fumine
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tsukamoto
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyoshi
authors.forename: Yoshiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanji
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: Shinzaburo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Noguchi
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data