The Expander-Implant Breast Reconstruction in the COVID Era: Which is the "Unhappy" Tissue Expander Priority?
Aesthetic Plast Surg
; 45(6): 3090-3091, 2021 12.
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ABSTRACT
Breast surgeons seem to agree on the fact that a same-day surgery (mastectomy and breast reconstruction) protocol provides appropriate cancer treatment during times of unprecedented resource limitations, such as in the COVID era. In this scenario, pre-pectoral implant-based breast reconstruction can be definitively considered a sustainable technique. Nevertheless, the authors focus on the management of patients who had already undergone a same day procedure with two-stage breast reconstruction, implanting a breast tissue expander during the last two-year period and have been progressively delayed according to a surgical care based on priority. We coined the expression "unhappy tissue expander" to define all those symptomatic patients for which surgery should not be delayed even during an epidemic context.Level of Evidence V This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Neoplasias de la Mama
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Mamoplastia
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Implantes de Mama
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Guideline
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Observational_studies
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Female
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Humans
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En
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2021
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Article