Evolution of radical mastectomy for breast cancer

Surgical treatment of breast cancer has been marked by a constant evolution since the Halsted radical mastectomy described in the late 19th century has become the current standard Madden radical mastectomy, a breast surgery that involves the ablation of tissue with the axillary lymphatic preserving...

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Autores principales: Plesca, M, Bordea, C, El Houcheimi, B, Ichim, E, Blidaru, A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Carol Davila University Press 2016
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Case Presentations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4863512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27453752
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description Surgical treatment of breast cancer has been marked by a constant evolution since the Halsted radical mastectomy described in the late 19th century has become the current standard Madden radical mastectomy, a breast surgery that involves the ablation of tissue with the axillary lymphatic preserving both pectoral muscles. The purpose of this paper was to present the stages that have marked the evolution of this intervention and to provide an overview of the way breast cancer has been understood and treated in the last century.
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spelling pubmed-48635122016-07-22 Evolution of radical mastectomy for breast cancer Plesca, M Bordea, C El Houcheimi, B Ichim, E Blidaru, A J Med Life Case Presentations Surgical treatment of breast cancer has been marked by a constant evolution since the Halsted radical mastectomy described in the late 19th century has become the current standard Madden radical mastectomy, a breast surgery that involves the ablation of tissue with the axillary lymphatic preserving both pectoral muscles. The purpose of this paper was to present the stages that have marked the evolution of this intervention and to provide an overview of the way breast cancer has been understood and treated in the last century. Carol Davila University Press 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4863512/ /pubmed/27453752 Text en ©Carol Davila University Press http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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