If the final pathologic evaluation of the mastectomy specimen indicates that radiation therapy is needed for local control, one may consider irradiating the chest wall before expansion with an ...

Mastectomy is when all breast tissue is removed. In appropriately selected patients, the surgeon may be able to conserve some of the skin and/or nipple normally lost during a mastectomy. The choice of ...

Biopsy scar is excised, and biopsy cavity is included en bloc with mastectomy specimen. Figure 1b. Design of skin incision for excising separate biopsy scar. Biopsy scar re-excision is then closed ...

to share his thoughts and suggested they should carry out an audit of the histology results of mastectomy specimens to see if there was a pattern with breast tissue being left behind. The inquest ...

Pathologic result yielded ER-positive and PR-positive grade 2 ductal carcinoma in situ, which subsequently underwent mastectomy.