Is mastectomy still justified - And if, in which patients?

Onkologie

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 243-245

  Audretsch, Werner ^a,c   Andree, Christoph ^b  

^a Interdisciplinary Breast Center   (Germany)

^b Interdisciplinary Breast Center IBC   (Germany)

^c Kliniken der Landeshauptstadt gGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL RISK; TISSUE FLAP; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GERMANY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 33745949337     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093477     Document Type: Editorial

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