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Immediate Breast Reconstruction in Previously Irradiated Patients

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Breast reconstruction in previously irradiated patients represents a difficult challenge to the surgeon due to the higher rates of complication and reconstruction failure that occur in this group of patients, especially with implants. Flaps remain the primary option, although for some very well-selected patients, implants can achieve satisfactory results with low rates of short- and long-term complications. The purpose of this chapter was to establish an algorithm for breast reconstruction after recurrence of breast cancer in patients previously submitted to breast-conserving surgery and exposed to irradiation.

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  1. Breast Unit, Our Lady of Grace Hospital and Positivo University Medical School, Curitiba, Brazil

    Cicero Urban

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

    Gustavo Zucca-Matthes

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

    Gustavo Zucca-Matthes

  4. Mastology and Breast Reconstruction, Hospital do Câncer de Barretos, Barretos, SP, Brazil

    Rene Vieira

  5. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Lombardia, Italy

    Mario Rietjens

  6. Tocogynecology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

    Iris Rabinovich

  7. Breast Unit, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

    Iris Rabinovich

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

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Urban, C., Zucca-Matthes, G., Vieira, R., Rietjens, M., Rabinovich, I. (2019). Immediate Breast Reconstruction in Previously Irradiated Patients. 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_60

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