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Skin-Reducing Mastectomy

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Breast cancer surgery has evolved from radical mastectomy, with excision of as much tissue as possible, to subcutaneous mastectomy, with sparing of as much tissue as possible. Skin-reducing mastectomy (SRM) is a single-stage technique that helps us to overcome the cosmetic inadequacy of a Wise pattern skin-sparing mastectomy (final T-inverted scar) in heavy and pendulous breasts by filling the lower-medial quadrant with adequate volume.

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  1. Department of Mastology and Breast Reconstruction, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil

    Gustavo Zucca-Matthes

  2. Oncoplastic Training Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil

    Gustavo Zucca-Matthes

  3. Breast Unit Barretos – BUB, Department of Breast Surgery and Reconstruction, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil

    Raphael Luis Haikel

  4. Oncoplastic Training Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil

    Raphael Luis Haikel

  5. Oncoplastic Training Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil

    Angelo Matthes

  6. Department of Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Mastology, Ribeirão Preto University (UNAERP), Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

    Angelo Matthes

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  1. Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Positivo University, Curitiba, Brazil

    Cicero Urban

  2. Plastic and Reconstructive Division, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

    Mario Rietjens

  3. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

    Mahmoud El-Tamer

  4. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

    Virgilio S. Sacchini

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Zucca-Matthes, G., Haikel, R.L., Matthes, A. (2019). Skin-Reducing Mastectomy. In: Urban, C., Rietjens, M., El-Tamer, M., Sacchini, V.S. (eds) Oncoplastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62927-8_40

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