Successful Lumpectomy in a Patient With Multicentric Breast Cancer

When there is extensive breast cancer, patients typically undergo mastectomy. However, lumpectomy may still be performed for patients who are motivated to avoid a mastectomy and understand the risk for positive margins requiring second surgery in unique cases. This report details the surgical manage...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Quan D, Tavana, Anahita, Sadruddin, Sarfaraz, Chao, Celia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7522052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32999790
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10072
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author Nguyen, Quan D
Tavana, Anahita
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Chao, Celia
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description When there is extensive breast cancer, patients typically undergo mastectomy. However, lumpectomy may still be performed for patients who are motivated to avoid a mastectomy and understand the risk for positive margins requiring second surgery in unique cases. This report details the surgical management and clinical reasoning behind lumpectomy for a multicentric breast cancer spanning 5 cm. The lumpectomy was a success with negative margins on final pathology.
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spelling pubmed-75220522020-09-29 Successful Lumpectomy in a Patient With Multicentric Breast Cancer Nguyen, Quan D Tavana, Anahita Sadruddin, Sarfaraz Chao, Celia Cureus Radiology When there is extensive breast cancer, patients typically undergo mastectomy. However, lumpectomy may still be performed for patients who are motivated to avoid a mastectomy and understand the risk for positive margins requiring second surgery in unique cases. This report details the surgical management and clinical reasoning behind lumpectomy for a multicentric breast cancer spanning 5 cm. The lumpectomy was a success with negative margins on final pathology. Cureus 2020-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7522052/ /pubmed/32999790 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10072 Text en Copyright © 2020, Nguyen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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title Successful Lumpectomy in a Patient With Multicentric Breast Cancer
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title_short Successful Lumpectomy in a Patient With Multicentric Breast Cancer
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