title: Management of breast carcinoma identified intraoperatively during reduction mammaplasty.
abstract: Before reduction mammaplasty, patients should be assessed for breast cancer risk and evaluated with physical examination and mammography. Patients determined to be at increased risk should be informed of the possibility of occult breast carcinoma and the potential treatment options. Intraoperative discovery of an occult carcinoma may allow for breast conservation therapy under certain circumstances if an appropriate biopsy sample is taken from the tumor and if clear margins are obtained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Box 443, Houston, TX 77030-4009, USA.
authors.forename: Charles E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Butler
authors.forename: Kelly K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: S Eva
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Singletary
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D018270:Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D018275:Carcinoma, Lobular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D016462:Mammaplasty; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery