Endoscopic mastectomy: What does the future hold?

Women's Health

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-109

  Keshtgar, Mohammed R S ^a   Fukuma, Eisuke ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVATION SURGERY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTRACTURE; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC MASTECTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MASTECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERFORATOR FLAP; SAFETY; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STANDARD;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECURRENCE;

EID: 67650107616     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17455057.5.2.107     Document Type: Editorial

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