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Mastectomy Incision Design to Optimize Aesthetic Outcomes in Breast Reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2020
Background:. Choosing the optimal mastectomy incision must account for oncologic, reconstructive, and aesthetic considerations, including nipple preservation, mastectomy skin margins and potential for skin involvement, mastectomy skin perfusion and ...
Adi Maisel Lotan, MD, Krystina C. Tongson, DO, Alice M. Police, MD, FACS, Wojciech Dec, MD   +3 more
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Prevalence of lymphedema after mastectomy in women living with breast cancer: a systematic review of the influence of immediate reconstruction [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, 2019
This study aimed to analyze, through systematic review of literature, the influence of immediate reconstruction on the prevalence of lymphedema after mastectomy, in women living with breast cancer.
Rafael Vilela Eiras Ribeiro
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The Effects of Mastectomy and Post-Mastectomy Reconstructive Surgery of Breast-cancer Patients on their Depression, Self-esteem and Self-efficacy Beliefs

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2019
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to draw a comparison between patients diagnosed with breast-cancer and had mastectomy and post-mastectomy reconstructive operation with respect to their depression, self-esteem and self-efficacy belief scores against ...
Zehra Kanmaz, Osman Tolga Aricak
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Safety of hormone replacement therapy after mastectomy

, 2002
After mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy for high-grade ductal carcinoma with nodal involvement and lymphatic infiltration, a 48-year-old woman had premature menopause, with symptoms of loss of libido.
Glasziou, Paul P, Sanders, Sharon L, Mar, Christopher B Del, Spinks, Anneliese Barclay, Hilton, Deborah J   +4 more
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Intratumoral Hypoxia Triggers Mitochondrial BHLHE40 ROS Sensing Pathway to Promote Radioresistance in Triple‐Negative Breast Cancer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Hypoxia triggers a dual mechanism for BHLHE40 upregulation: reactive oxygen species (ROS)‐dependent post‐translational modification and hypoxia‐inducible factor (HIF)‐dependent transcriptional activation. Under hypoxic conditions, mitochondrial BHLHE40 accumulates and senses ROS via cysteine thiol oxidation and disulfide‐linked homodimer formation ...
Jia Liu, Ziliang Nie, Xi Chen, Guangyu Ji, Yajing Zhang, Zhiqun Zhao, Yuhong Zhang, Xinlong Du, Zhenzhen Zhou, Jiayi Li, Yaozong Yang, Fengqi Sun, Zhibo Yan, Haiquan Lu   +13 more
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Decision-making about mastectomy among Chinese women with breast cancer: a mixed-methods study protocol

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction The prevalence of mastectomy in China is higher than its Western counterparts. Little is known about whether Chinese women with breast cancer have been involved in the decision-making process of mastectomy, the level of decisional conflict ...
Jing Liu, Dongmei Guo, Qin Lin, Sally Wai-chi Chan, Sharyn Hunter, Jiemin Zhu, Regina Lai-Tong Lee   +6 more
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Gephyrin Neurological Autoimmunity

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Gephyrin is a postsynaptic scaffold protein essential for inhibitory neurotransmission. Gephyrin‐immunoglobulin G (IgG) was reported, decades ago, in a single case of paraneoplastic stiff‐person‐like syndrome, but its broader clinical relevance remains unknown.
Maria Chiara Pantuliano, Friederike A. Arlt, Naomi Arenson, Irena Dujmovic Basuroski, Divyanshu Dubey, Connie E. Lesnick, John R. Mills, Sean J. Pittock, Anastasia Zekeridou, Michael A. Lane, Andrew McKeon   +10 more
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Sexuality, depression and body image after breast reconstruction

Clinics
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of breast reconstruction after mastectomy on sexual function, body image, and depression. METHODS: This cross-sectional, comparative, controlled study was conducted with 90 women between 18 and 65 years of age who had ...
Silvania de Cassia Vieira Archangelo, Miguel Sabino Neto, Daniela Francescato Veiga, Elvio Bueno Garcia, Lydia Masako Ferreira   +4 more
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Residual breast tissue after robot-assisted nipple sparing mastectomy

Breast, 2021
Introduction: While the long-term oncologic safety of robot-assisted nipple sparing mastectomy (RNSM) remains to be elucidated, histologically detected residual breast tissue (RBT) can be a surrogate for oncologically sound mastectomy.
Ko Un Park, MD, Gary H. Tozbikian, MD, David Ferry, RNFA, Allan Tsung, MD, Mathew Chetta, MD, Steven Schulz, MD, Roman Skoracki, MD   +6 more
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Depression in breast cancer patients who have undergone mastectomy: A national cohort study.

PLoS ONE, 2017
ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to compare the incidence of post-operative depression in breast cancer patients who have undergone mastectomy with the incidence of post-operative depression in non-breast cancer participants (controls ...
Min-Su Kim, So Young Kim, Jin-Hwan Kim, Bumjung Park, Hyo Geun Choi   +4 more
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