Delayed Total Breast Reconstruction with Brava

Several surgical procedures exist in regard to reconstruction of the breast after mastectomy. The use of Brava a vacuum-based external soft-tissue expansion system in combination with fat transplantation is a less documented but viable option in treating patients after mastectomy. We share our exper...

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Autores principales: Hammer-Hansen, Niels, Jensen, Thomas Bo, Damsgaard, Tine Engberg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25793137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/601904
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description Several surgical procedures exist in regard to reconstruction of the breast after mastectomy. The use of Brava a vacuum-based external soft-tissue expansion system in combination with fat transplantation is a less documented but viable option in treating patients after mastectomy. We share our experience in treating a 57-year-old patient with mastectomy, describing the complications and pitfalls we experienced when using the Brava system in combination with fat transplantation.
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spelling pubmed-43524922015-03-19 Delayed Total Breast Reconstruction with Brava Hammer-Hansen, Niels Jensen, Thomas Bo Damsgaard, Tine Engberg Case Rep Surg Case Report Several surgical procedures exist in regard to reconstruction of the breast after mastectomy. The use of Brava a vacuum-based external soft-tissue expansion system in combination with fat transplantation is a less documented but viable option in treating patients after mastectomy. We share our experience in treating a 57-year-old patient with mastectomy, describing the complications and pitfalls we experienced when using the Brava system in combination with fat transplantation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4352492/ /pubmed/25793137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/601904 Text en Copyright © 2015 Niels Hammer-Hansen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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