Nipple-sparing mastectomy-is it worth the risk?

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 742-747

  Petit, Jean Yves ^a   Veronesi, Umberto ^a   Lohsiriwat, Visnu ^a   Rey, Piercarlo ^a   Curigliano, Giuseppe ^a   Martella, Stefano ^a   Garusi, Cristina ^a   De Lorenzi, Francesca ^a   Manconi, Andrea ^a   Botteri, Edoardo ^a   Didier, Florence ^a   Orecchia, Roberto ^a   Rietjens, Mario ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; NIPPLE SPARING MASTECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SKIN NECROSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NIPPLES;

EID: 82555168349     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2011.159     Document Type: Review

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