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Oncoplastic Approach to Giant Benign Breast Tumors Presenting as Unilateral Macromastia

Benign breast tumors attaining large size constitute an important cause of unilateral macromastia. Their usual treatment involves enucleation or excision with a margin based on pathology and waiting for spontaneous retraction of skin envelope. In very large tumors, this will leave the residual breas...

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Autor principal: Malathi, Lekshmi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2020
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7775223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33402781
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1716187
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description Benign breast tumors attaining large size constitute an important cause of unilateral macromastia. Their usual treatment involves enucleation or excision with a margin based on pathology and waiting for spontaneous retraction of skin envelope. In very large tumors, this will leave the residual breast deflated and unaesthetic, with spontaneous skin retraction giving unpredictable results. Application of the principles of oncoplastic surgery are helpful in this situation. Here, we present two cases of benign giant tumors—a giant fibroadenoma and a giant lipoma—managed by reduction mammaplasty approach to restore the breast symmetry and aesthetics.
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spelling pubmed-77752232021-01-04 Oncoplastic Approach to Giant Benign Breast Tumors Presenting as Unilateral Macromastia Malathi, Lekshmi Indian J Plast Surg Benign breast tumors attaining large size constitute an important cause of unilateral macromastia. Their usual treatment involves enucleation or excision with a margin based on pathology and waiting for spontaneous retraction of skin envelope. In very large tumors, this will leave the residual breast deflated and unaesthetic, with spontaneous skin retraction giving unpredictable results. Application of the principles of oncoplastic surgery are helpful in this situation. Here, we present two cases of benign giant tumors—a giant fibroadenoma and a giant lipoma—managed by reduction mammaplasty approach to restore the breast symmetry and aesthetics. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2020-12 2020-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7775223/ /pubmed/33402781 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1716187 Text en Association of Plastic Surgeons of India. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial-License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Oncoplastic Approach to Giant Benign Breast Tumors Presenting as Unilateral Macromastia
title_full Oncoplastic Approach to Giant Benign Breast Tumors Presenting as Unilateral Macromastia
title_fullStr Oncoplastic Approach to Giant Benign Breast Tumors Presenting as Unilateral Macromastia
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title_short Oncoplastic Approach to Giant Benign Breast Tumors Presenting as Unilateral Macromastia
title_sort oncoplastic approach to giant benign breast tumors presenting as unilateral macromastia
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7775223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33402781
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