The role of nipple-sparing mastectomy in breast cancer: A comprehensive review of the literature

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 969-984

  Mallon, Peter ^a   Feron, Jean Guillaume ^a   Couturaud, Benoit ^a   Fitoussi, Alfred ^a   Lemasurier, Perig ^a   Guihard, Thierry ^a   Cothier Savay, Isabelle ^a   Reyal, Fabien ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; NIPPLE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

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

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877775752     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182865a3c     Document Type: Article

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