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Surgery is considered the primary treatment for breast cancer. Goals include complete resection of the primary tumor, with negative margins to reduce the risk of local recurrences, and pathologic staging of the tumor and axillary lymph nodes to provide necessary prognostic information. Several

. a tumor and at least a 1-inch margin of surrounding tissue along with the pectoralis muscle fascia are excised in one quadrant of a breast. quadrantectomy Surgery The excision of a quadrant of tissue, usually from the breast, which includes both grossly identifiable malignancy and grossly normal soft-tissue margins. Cf Lumpectomy, Mastectomy. quadrantectomy

Oncoplastic Reconstruction with Superior Based Lateral Breast Rotation Flap after Lower Quadrant Tumor . For lower quadrant breast tumors, suturing of the defect at its deepest point, which is a technique used for women with relatively large sized breasts, could shift the inframammary fold to an unnatural position in women with . Oncoplastic Reconstruction with Superior Based Lateral Breast Rotation Flap after Lower Quadrant Tumor Resection. Journal of Breast Cancer. 2012 Sep .

. oncologic and cosmetic outcomes in women with breast carcinoma who were treated with breast-conserving therapy using oncoplastic techniques with concomitant symmetrization of the contralateral breast. . Ninety-one tumors were situated in the central area of the breast or in the inferior quadrants. Eight were in the superolateral and two were in the superomedial quadrants. Table 1.HISTOLOGY OF . and the contralateral breast resection specimen were sent for histopathologic examination.

Improving Breast Cancer Surgery: A Classification and Quadrant per Quadrant Atlas for Oncoplastic Surgery Krishna B. Clough, MD, Gabriel J. Kaufman, MD, Claude Nos, MD, Ines Buccimazza, MD, . involve extensive skin excision and breast reshaping.9 They result in a significantly smaller, rounder breast. Bilevel Classification Our bilevel classification system leads to a practical

Includes from 85 Operations on the skin and subcutaneous tissue of: breast female or male previous mastectomy site female or male revision of previous mastectomy site

When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer many aspects of her physical, emotional, . The radial ellipse segmentectomy is a versatile procedure that can be used to resect a breast cancer located in any quadrant of the breast [12, 25, 26] . Shows lumpectomy cavity after segmental resection of breast glandular tissue only with arrows denoting the extent of undermining of the overlying skin flap. (d) .

Quadrants of the Breast. Note: C50.6 is the code for axillary tail or tail of breast. « Previous (Anatomy) Next (Regional Lymph Nodes) .