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A Case with Breast Cancer under the Nipple Who Underwent Breast Conserving Treatment
1Operation Center, Kanazawa University Hospital, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920, Japan.
Breast Cancer (Tokyo, Japan)
|December 30, 1994
Abstract:
Although breast conserving treatment (BCT) had become the standard therapy for early breast cancer, breast removal is still recommended for patients with a tumor beneath the nipple or with Paget's disease. We have employed transposition of a latissimus dorsi myocutaneous (LD-MC)flap after wide local excision of a tumor with the nipple-areola complex. A new nipple-areola complex was reconstructed on the LD-MC flap after breast irradiation. Utilizing reconstructive techniques, BCT will likely become the treatment of choice for more patients with early breast cancer.