Prophylactic mastectomy: Is it worth it?

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-148

  De La Peña Salcedo, Jose Abel ^a   Soto Miranda, Miguel Angel ^a   Lopez Salguero, Jose Fernando ^a  

^a Institute for Plastic Surgery   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Breast; Prophylactic mastectomy; Subcutaneous mastectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84857922127     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-011-9769-x     Document Type: Review

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