An oncoplastic technique to reduce the formation of lateral 'dog-ears' after mastectomy

BACKGROUND: Lateral skin folds or 'dog-ears' are frequent following mastectomy, particularly in patients with large body habitus. METHODS: We describe a method of modifying the mastectomy incision and suturing to eliminate these lateral 'dog-ears'. CONCLUSION: This surgical techn...

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Autores principales: Devalia, Haresh, Chaudhry, Anushka, Rainsbury, Richard M, Minakaran, Neda, Banerjee, Dibyesh
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2231377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18086301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-4-29
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author Devalia, Haresh
Chaudhry, Anushka
Rainsbury, Richard M
Minakaran, Neda
Banerjee, Dibyesh
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Chaudhry, Anushka
Rainsbury, Richard M
Minakaran, Neda
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description BACKGROUND: Lateral skin folds or 'dog-ears' are frequent following mastectomy, particularly in patients with large body habitus. METHODS: We describe a method of modifying the mastectomy incision and suturing to eliminate these lateral 'dog-ears'. CONCLUSION: This surgical technique, as compared to others described in the literature, is simple, does not require additional incisions and is cosmetically acceptable to the patient.
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spelling pubmed-22313772008-02-06 An oncoplastic technique to reduce the formation of lateral 'dog-ears' after mastectomy Devalia, Haresh Chaudhry, Anushka Rainsbury, Richard M Minakaran, Neda Banerjee, Dibyesh Int Semin Surg Oncol Research BACKGROUND: Lateral skin folds or 'dog-ears' are frequent following mastectomy, particularly in patients with large body habitus. METHODS: We describe a method of modifying the mastectomy incision and suturing to eliminate these lateral 'dog-ears'. CONCLUSION: This surgical technique, as compared to others described in the literature, is simple, does not require additional incisions and is cosmetically acceptable to the patient. BioMed Central 2007-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2231377/ /pubmed/18086301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-4-29 Text en Copyright © 2007 Devalia et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Devalia, Haresh
Chaudhry, Anushka
Rainsbury, Richard M
Minakaran, Neda
Banerjee, Dibyesh
An oncoplastic technique to reduce the formation of lateral 'dog-ears' after mastectomy
title An oncoplastic technique to reduce the formation of lateral 'dog-ears' after mastectomy
title_full An oncoplastic technique to reduce the formation of lateral 'dog-ears' after mastectomy
title_fullStr An oncoplastic technique to reduce the formation of lateral 'dog-ears' after mastectomy
title_full_unstemmed An oncoplastic technique to reduce the formation of lateral 'dog-ears' after mastectomy
title_short An oncoplastic technique to reduce the formation of lateral 'dog-ears' after mastectomy
title_sort oncoplastic technique to reduce the formation of lateral 'dog-ears' after mastectomy
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2231377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18086301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-4-29
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